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The Puritan Way of Death. A Study in Religion, Culture, and Social Change.
David E. Stannard
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Description for The Puritan Way of Death. A Study in Religion, Culture, and Social Change.
Paperback. Series: Galaxy Books. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HBWF. Dimension: 204 x 135. Weight in Grams: 226.
The Puritan Way of Death is more than a book about Puritans or about death. It is also about family, community, and identity in the modern world. Even before publication, eminent historians, sociologists, and religious scholars in the United States and Europea-among them, Gordon Wood, Philippe Ariès, William Clebsch, and Robert Nisbet-hailed it as a "pathbreaking, provocative, and exciting" work, a "terse, urbane, learned, clear, humane" volume.
The Puritan Way of Death is more than a book about Puritans or about death. It is also about family, community, and identity in the modern world. Even before publication, eminent historians, sociologists, and religious scholars in the United States and Europea-among them, Gordon Wood, Philippe Ariès, William Clebsch, and Robert Nisbet-hailed it as a "pathbreaking, provocative, and exciting" work, a "terse, urbane, learned, clear, humane" volume.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1979
Publisher
OUP USA US
Language
English
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Galaxy Books
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195025217
SKU
V9780195025217
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Reviews for The Puritan Way of Death. A Study in Religion, Culture, and Social Change.
"A bellwether book
an intelligent and highly original study of seventeenth-century attitudes toward death. The book rests upon a strong command of social science literature and is written with style and grace."
David Hackett Fischer, The New Republic "Stannard skillfully weaves diverse rich sources into this interdisciplinary study of death
a common human concern. His study of the Puritan way of death ... Read more
an intelligent and highly original study of seventeenth-century attitudes toward death. The book rests upon a strong command of social science literature and is written with style and grace."
David Hackett Fischer, The New Republic "Stannard skillfully weaves diverse rich sources into this interdisciplinary study of death
a common human concern. His study of the Puritan way of death ... Read more