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Dying and death in 18th-21st century Europe [electronic resource] / edited by Marius Rotar and Adriana Teodorescu.

Contributor(s): Publication details: Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2011Description: 1 online resource (vii, 366 p.) illISBN:
  • 1443832561 (electronic bk.)
  • 9781443832564 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 306.90940903 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ1073.5.E85 D95 2011
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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.
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Selected conference papers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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