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The Puritan way of death : a study in religion, culture, and social change /

This is more than a book about Puritans or about death. It is also about family, community, and identity in the modern world. The book is an intelligent and highly original study of 17th-century attitudes toward death, which were profoundly different from those in our own time. Prof. Stannard's...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stannard, David E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 1977.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Death in the western tradition
  • The world of the Puritan
  • Death and childhood
  • Death and dying
  • Death and burial
  • Death and decline
  • Toward an American way of death.