ISBN:
9781400862986
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1400862981
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (432 pages)
Series Statement:
Princeton Legacy Library
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Kselman, Thomas A Death and Afterlife in Modern France
DDC:
393.0944
Keywords:
Funeral rites and ceremonies History
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19th century
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France
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Death Religious aspects
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Catholic Church
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Death Religious aspects
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Catholic Church
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Funeral rites and ceremonies History 19th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Death & Dying
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Death ; Religious aspects ; Catholic Church
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Funeral rites and ceremonies
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Anthropology
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Social Sciences
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Manners & Customs
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HISTORY ; Europe ; France
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History
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France History
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19th century
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France
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France History 19th century
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France
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Electronic books
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Electronic books History
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Although today in France church attendance is minimal, when death occurs many families still cling to religious rites. In exploring this common reaction to one of the most painful aspects of existence, Thomas Kselman turns to nineteenth-century French beliefs about death and the afterlife not only to show how deeply rooted the cult of the dead is in one Western society, but how death and the behavior of mourners have been politicized in the modern world. Drawing on sermons preached in rural and urban parishes, folktales, and accounts of seances, the author vividly re-creates the social and
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