Sensing Hinduism: Lucian-Indian Funeral “Feast” as Glocalized Ritual1

The Life of Hinduism

Enough is as good as a feast – sufficiency as policy

The concept of sufficiency has a long history, related as it is to the timeless issues of how best to distribute and use resources. Where energy is concerned, absolute reductions in demand are increasingly seen as necessary in response to climate change and energy security concerns. There is an acknowledgement that, collectively if not individually, humans have gone beyond safe limits in their ...

A Christian Funeral Director's Reflections on the Modern Funeral

An interview with Lucian Leape.

653 Lucian L. Leape, M.D., is Adjunct Professor of Health Policy, Harvard School of Public Health, and Consultant, The RAND Corporation. A pediatric surgeon by training, Dr. Leape has devoted the last 15 years to the challenge of improving patient safety in the United States health care system. Dr. Leape has contributed a substantive body of research on medical error and has been a tireless adv...

Funeral insurance

Funeral insurance has existed at least since antiquity, and it remains popular in many parts of Africa today. Yet the study of funeral insurance as a distinct form of insurance has hitherto been neglected. This paper presents a model in which funeral insurance combines regular life insurance with a restriction on how the payout is spent. The model predicts that there is an intermediate range of...