(Hardback)

Argues that the most elementary form of religious life in many Western societies and other societies around the world, is situational, mundane and concerned with helping people to cope with their day to day lives.

(Paperback)

Based on the exploration whether the widespread activity of sitting next to a grave and talking to a deceased person is a religious act, this book argues that it is probably much more typical of a fundamental religious act than much of what happens in churches, synagogues or mosques.