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 Ari�s, Ann Douglas, Stanley French, Jack Goody, Patricia Fern�ndez Kelly, Mary Ann Meyers, Lewis O. Saum, David E. Stannard ...
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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 Ari�s, Ann Douglas, Stanley French, Jack Goody, Patricia Fern�ndez Kelly, Mary Ann Meyers, Lewis O. Saum, David E. Stannard.
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1975, University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection