Death in Banaras by Jonathan P. Parry focuses primarily on the priests and other "sacred specialists" who serve the deceased, pilgrims, and mourners in the city of Banaras . This book examines how priests organize their activity, understanding the rituals and representations of death over which they preside. The author contributed to the literature on the symbolism of death and to the sociology of the priest and sacred specialists. This novel focuses on topics such as funeral rituals, death, and pilgrimage and develops a few different topics throughout the literature. Perry supports his arguments using facts. The author argues that death is an act of cosmic regeneration (Perry, 13), that data on spiritual affliction supports four related propositions (226), and that renunciates and their values ​​have made Hindu social life problematic (139) . is divided into four parts: "Death and the City", "Death as Life", "Death in Birth" and "The End of Death". In the first part of this book Parry offers an overview of the “profane” and “sacred” aspects of Banaras (32). The second part, “Death as Life,” focuses on the question of mortuary rituals (139). The third part, “Death in Birth,” describes actual death rituals and the reintegration of the deceased from ghost to ancestor. The final section "The End of Death" describes the ascetic's quest to completely defeat death while avoiding going through the endless cycle of rebirth. In each of the main sections of his book Perry contains subsections with many details about the section as a whole (220). The first argument presented by the author in Death in Banaras is that death is an act of cosmic regeneration. He argues that the staged cremation rituals are a kind of re-enactment… at the heart of the paper… I liked some aspects of the book, while there were many areas I didn't like. For example, I didn't like the number of facts presented in the book, I thought this book should be used in the classroom, as a textbook rather than something to read for fun. This made the book difficult to read because it was pure analysis and description of different aspects that have to do with death. The book relies heavily on the presentation of facts from other sources. I believe the author presents his arguments clearly and precisely and provides evidence of examples to support his thesis. Examines, analyzes and interprets the spiritual along with the material phenomena associated with death in Banaras. I would recommend this book to anyone with an interest in funeral rituals, death and pilgrimage. Even though this book wasn't my favorite, I would still recommend it to other people.