Author: John Storer CobbPublisher:
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Category : Cremation
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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A Quartercentury of Cremation in North America
Author: John Storer CobbPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cremation
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Purified by Fire
Author: Stephen ProtheroPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520929746
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Just one hundred years ago, Americans almost universally condemned cremation. Today, nearly one-quarter of Americans choose to be cremated. The practice has gained wide acceptance as a funeral rite, in both our private and public lives, as the cremations of icons such as John Lennon and John F. Kennedy Jr. show. Purified by Fire tells the fascinating story of cremation's rise from notoriety to legitimacy and takes a provocative new look at important transformations in the American cultural landscape over the last 150 years. Stephen Prothero synthesizes a wide array of previously untapped source material, including newspapers, consumer guides, mortician trade journals, and popular magazines such as Reader's Digest to provide this first historical study of cremation in the United States. He vividly describes many noteworthy events—from the much-criticized first American cremation in 1876 to the death and cremation of Jerry Garcia in the late twentieth century. From the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era to the baby boomers of today, this book takes us on a tour through American culture and traces our changing attitudes toward death, religion, public health, the body, and the environment.
Encyclopedia of Cremation
Author: Lewis H. MatesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317143825
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 879
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of Cremation is the first major reference resource focused on cremation. Spanning many world cultures it documents regional histories, ideological movements and leading individuals that fostered cremation whilst also presenting cremation as a universal practice. Tracing ancient and classical cremation sites, historical and contemporary cremation processes and procedures of both scientific and legal kind, the encyclopedia also includes sections on specific cremation rituals, architecture, art and text. Features in the volume include: a general introduction and editorial introductions to sub-sections by Douglas Davies, an international specialist in death studies; appendices of world cremation statistics and a chronology of cremation; cross-referencing pathways through the entries via the index; individual entry bibliographies; and illustrations. This major international reference work is also an essential source book for students on the growing number of death-studies courses and wider studies in religion, anthropology or sociology.
The Annual American Catalog
Author: The Annual American Catalogue Cumulated
Author: The New International Encyclopædia
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 900
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Report of the Librarian of the State Library
Author: Massachusetts State LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 236
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Public Documents of Massachusetts
Author: MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
Report of the Librarian of the State Library of Massachusetts
Author: Report of the Librarian of the State Library of Massachusetts
Author: State Library of MassachusettsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description