An edition of The secularization of death in Scotland, 1815-1900
(2014)
The secularization of death in Scotland, 1815-1900
how the funeral industry displaced the church as custodian of the dead (a study of private cemeteries, public crematoria, and bereavement practices in edinburgh)
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The secularization of death in Scotland, 1815-1900: how the funeral industry displaced the church as custodian of the dead (a study of private cemeteries, public crematoria, and bereavement practices in edinburgh)
2014, Edwin Mellen Press
in English
0773435212 9780773435216
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Table of Contents
Foreword / by Peter C. Jupp
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Edinburgh - living and dying in a Scottish city
The kirk and the funeral industry
The kirk and the burden of death
Challenging the kirk : the cemetery companies and the state
"The doctors of grief" : funeral undertaking in nineteenth-century Edinburgh
The public face of death
Patterns of mourning
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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