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FROM DUST TO ASHES IBD

BRIAN PARSONS / PETER C JUPP
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
12 / 2025
9783031884108
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Sinopsis

The second edition ofáFrom Dust to Ashesábrings up-to-date this classic text investigating the replacement of burial by cremation in England and Wales. Cremation was promoted seriously in 1874 but the first cremation did not take place until eleven years later. The response by the public was cautious.áDespiteáthe provision of crematoria, by 1939, less than 4 percent of deaths were followed by cremation. The Second World War and the immediate post-war welfare state period brought drastic change to the extentáthat by 1967 the number of cremations first exceeded burials. Today,áthe proportionáisájustáover 80 per cent.áThe final chapter addresses the enormous changesáin the last twenty-five years in the disposal of our deadThis book discusses the activities of the Cremation Society, the establishmentáof early crematoria, and the promotion of cremation against the background of social and economic change before outlining the reasons why bereaved families choseáto accept it and, finally, the social, economic and religious pressures that facilitated its adoption.The book will therefore be of use to scholars of death studies, anthropology, sociology, health and medicine andáchurch history, as well as members of the funeral professions.

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205,35€