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Dying and death in 18th-21st century Europe / edited by Marius Rotar and Adriana Teodorescu.
| Other author | Rotar, Marius. |
| Other author | Teodorescu, Adriana. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, |
| Description | 2 v. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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. |
| General note | Selected conference papers. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014495870 |
| ISBN | 9781443832083 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 1443832081 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 9781443855471 (v. 2) |
| ISBN | 1443855472 (v. 2) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |