The Puritan Way of Death

A Study in Religion, Culture, and Social Change

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, Death & Dying, History, Americas, United States, Colonial Period (1600-1775)
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Author: David E. Stannard ISBN: 9780190281182
Publisher: Oxford University Press Publication: October 13, 1977
Imprint: Oxford University Press Language: English
Author: David E. Stannard
ISBN: 9780190281182
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication: October 13, 1977
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Language: English

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.

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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.

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