The Cemetery as Cultural Institution: The Establishment of Mount Auburn and the “Rural Cemetery” Movement

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction VII
4. Death and the Interpretation of Culture: A Bibliographic Overview 1
5. Death and the Puritan Child 9
6. Death in the Popular Mind of Pre-Civil War America 30
7. Heaven Our Home: Consolation Literature in the Northern United States, 1830-1880 49
8. The Cemetery as Cultural Institution: The Establishment of Mount Auburn and the “Rural Cemetery” Movement 69
9. Death in Mexican Folk Culture 92
10. Gates Ajar: Death in Mormon Thought and Practice 112
11. The Reversal of Death: Changes in Attitudes Toward Death in Western Societies 134
12. Contributors 159