Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Graveyard meditations
- Part I. The Body Turned Inside Out : the Medieval Mystics :
- 1. The great leveler
- 2. The specter of age
- 3. The horror of the body
- 4. Acts of love
- 5. A living death
- Part II. Skulls and the Suffering God : Early Modern Mystics and the Fear of Death :
- 6. The scorches of predestination
- 7. Wounds of resurrection
- 8. Lesser deaths
- Part III. Childhood and the Mystery of Death : a Victorian Mystic :
- 9. The odd Victorians
- 10. An artistic sense for death
- 11. Unlocking the imprisoned mind
- 12. The courage of fairy
- 13. Falling from a dinosaur
- Part IV. Funeral Practices, Racism, and Climate Change : Mystics in America :
- 14. The communal rituals of death
- 15. The tensions of death and life
- 16. Between birth and death
- 17. Conquering nature
- Part V. Living and Dying Well : Walking the Path of the Mystics :
- 18. A lonely death
- 19. Grief
- 20. A good death
- 21. The spiritual practice of dying
- Conclusion: Anointing the grave.
