Bones of Contention: Animals and Religion in Contemporary Japan. By Barbara R. Ambros. University of Hawaii Press, September 30, 2012. 280 pages. ISBN-10: 082483674X ISBN-13: 978-0824836740
Considering the End: Mortality in Early Medieval Chinese Poetic Representation. By Timothy Wai Keung Chan. Brill Academic Publishers, May 11, 2012. 239 pages. ISBN-10: 900422209X ISBN-13: 978-9004222090
Bonds of the Dead: Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism. By Mark Michael Rowe. University Of Chicago Press, November 1, 2011. 256 pages. ISBN-10: 0226730158 ISBN-13: 978-0226730158
Death and the Afterlife in Japanese Buddhism. Edited by Jacqueline I. Stone and Mariko Namba Walter. University of Hawaii Press, August 20, 2008. 368 pages. ISBN-10: 0824832043 ISBN-13: 978-0824832049
To Die and Not Decay: Autobiography and the Pursuit of Immortality in Early China. By Matthew V. Wells. Association for Asian Studies, 2009. 200 pages. ISBN-10: 0924304588 ISBN-13: 978-0924304583
