Pilgrimage in Popular Culture

Reader teaches at the Scottish Centre for Japanese Studies, University of Sterling, Scotland, and until recently was also a senior research fellow at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen. Tony Walter is a lecturer in sociology at the University of Reading. He has written extensively about death in modern society, particularly funeral reform, and has lectured widely to a range of groups from the Royal Society of Arts to hospices, bereavement groups and clergy. He is currently researching the increasing interest in reincarnation in the West, the media's interest in death, and new approaches to bereavement care.