The Puritan Way of Death: A Study in Religion, Culture, and Social ChangeOxford University Press, 1977 - 236 pages 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. |
Contents
Death in the Western Tradition | 3 |
The World of the Puritan | 31 |
Death and Childhood | 44 |
Death and Dying | 72 |
Death and Burial | 96 |
Death and Decline | 135 |
Toward an American Way of Death | 167 |
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adults afterlife American Andover Ariès Ariès's attitudes toward death Awakening belief body Boston burial Cambridge cemetery ceremonies chapter Charles Chauncy childhood Christian church coffin Colonial concern corpse Cotton Mather culture damnation dead death and dying Diary divine doctrine earlier earthly elegy Elisabeth Kübler-Ross England Puritans English eternal example fact fear of death funeral ritual funeral sermon funerary God's Greven hath Heaven Hell Ibid idea important Increase Mather individual jeremiad John John Weever John Winthrop Jonathan Edwards Judgment least Leonard Hoar literature living London Massachusetts Middle Ages modern Moriendi mortality mourning Perry Miller Philippe Ariès postmortem Puritan Puritan children Puritan funerals Puritan parent recent Reformation Religion religious response Saints salvation Samuel Sewall Samuel Willard sense seventeenth century social society soul spiritual theme things Thomas Shepard thought tion torment traditional vision William Winthrop wrote Yale University York