This book describes how parents lose, find, or relocate spiritual anchors after the death of their child. It describes how ordinary people reconstruct their lives after their foundations have shifted, and how they make sense of their world after one of their centers of meaning has been removed.

Klass grounds his descriptions of spirituality in his scholarly study of comparative religions, and in his two decades studying the lives of bereaved parents. He argues that continuing bonds with their dead children can give parents a new transcendent reality. Deceased children, like saints...

This volume describes how parents lose, find or relocate spiritual anchors after the death of their child. It describes how people reconstruct their lives after the foundations have shifted, and how they make sense of their world after one of their centres of meaning has been removed.

Continuing Bonds in Bereavement explores the ways in which scholars have used, critiqued, and extended the continuing bonds model in interesting and important ways. Together, the book's five sections encourage scholars in both bereavement studies and in other fields to broaden their understanding of the concept of continuing bonds.

Continuing Bonds in Bereavement explores the ways in which scholars have used, critiqued, and extended the continuing bonds model in interesting and important ways. Together, the book's five sections encourage scholars in both bereavement studies and in other fields to broaden their understanding of the concept of continuing bonds.