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Death in America
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David E. Stannard
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2017
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The subject of death is treated as an aspect of cultural history, which includes the ideas about God, sin, death, and damnation imparted to children in Puritan New England; nineteenth-century America's grim acceptance of, if not relish for, death; consolation literature in the nineteenth century; the "rural cemetery" movement; and death in Mormon and Mexican societies.
Contributors: Philippe Ariès, Ann Douglas, Stanley French, Jack Goody, Patricia Fernández Kelly, Mary Ann Meyers, Lewis O. Saum, David E. Stannard.
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Contents
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Introduction
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Death and the Interpretation of Culture: A Bibliographic Overview
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Death and the Puritan Child
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Death in the Popular Mind of Pre-Civil War America
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Heaven Our Home: Consolation Literature in the Northern United States, 1830-1880
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The Cemetery as Cultural Institution: The Establishment of Mount Auburn and the “Rural Cemetery” Movement
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Death in Mexican Folk Culture
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Gates Ajar: Death in Mormon Thought and Practice
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The Reversal of Death: Changes in Attitudes Toward Death in Western Societies
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January 11, 2017
eBook ISBN:
9781512818857
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Reprint 2016
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176
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For universities and colleges of further and higher education
