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Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe.

This book features a selection of the most representative papers presented during the international conference Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe (ABDD). It invites you on a fascinating journey across the last three centuries of Europe, Other death as your guide. The past and present realit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rotar, Marius
Otros Autores: Teodorescu, Adriana
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011.
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  • Steps in the cold shadow / Marius Rotar and Adriana Teodorescu
  • Death and modernization / Iona Kemppainen
  • How sacred is secular death? And just how secular can sacred death be? A theoretical proposal / Adela Toplean
  • A place for the dead : 'Angels' and 'Heaven' in personalized eschatology / Thomas Quartier
  • The order of funeral services in the Romanian Orthodox Church at the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th century, reflected into the first Romanian printed books / Dumitru Vanca
  • Understanding death in the 21st century : Vito Mancuso and his re-assessment of the Christian teaching on death from the perspective of man's historical experience / Corneliu C. Smiut
  • These horrid superstitions : death and dying amongst the English 'folk', c. 1840-c.1914 / Helen Frisby
  • Honour and death in military and militaristic discourse in Romania (1859-1918) / Mihai Chiper
  • Collective interments : ossuaries and brotherly mounds in Bulgaria, 1944-1989 / Nikolai Vukov
  • Infanticide : between a private matter and public concern in Serbia from 1800 to 1860 / Aleksandra Vuletic
  • Welcoming home the dead : exhumation and reburial of famous deceased in Serbia / Aleksandra Pavicevic
  • The death of the star : social and cultural issues / Adriana Teodorescu
  • Body, culture, and place : towards an anthropology of the cemetery / Alessandro Gusman and Cristina Vargas
  • The natural burial ground Bergerbos : an alternative place of burial in the Netherlands / Mirjam Klaassens and Peter Groote
  • Birth of the "cremation power" : growth in cremation and building of crematoria in the Czech Republic / Zdeněk R. Nešpor
  • On cremation in interwar Romania / Marius Rotar
  • Liminal bodies of the dead and dying : ritual and the construction of social identity / Janneke Peelen and Joanna Wojtkowiak
  • Death and memory in the context of the contemporary Bulgarian street posted obituary / Emiliya Karaboeva
  • Everprivate grief in public space : roadside memorials in the Czech Republic / Olga Nešporová
  • The modern hospice movement : a quiet revolution in end of life care / Ken Worpole.