Journeys and Their Afterlives

Abstract

SUMMARYThis piece is about the disjointed experiences of death, grief, and gendered Hindu religiosity in contemporary India. The religious rituals surrounding death animate journeys of all kinds—between the spaces of these rituals; between religious belief and skepticism; between the sentimentality of the past and the present realities of loss; between home, kinship obligations, and a transnational world; and between changing norms of the family. [death, gender, grief, Hindu ritual, India]