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Rest in Peace: A Cultural History of Death and the Funeral Home in Twentieth-Century America
ISBN: 9780195183559 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Though it has often been passionately criticized--as fraudulent, exploitative, even pagan--the American funeral home has become nearly as inevitable as death itself, an institution firmly embedded in our culture. But how did the funeral home come to hold such a position? What is its history? And is it guilty of the charges sometimes leveled against it?
In Rest in Peace, Gary Laderman traces the origins of American funeral rituals, from the evolution of embalming techniques during and after the Civil War and the shift from home funerals to funeral homes at the turn of the... Though it has often been passionately criticized--as fraudulent, exploitative, even pagan--the American funeral home has become nearly as inevitable a...
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Sacred Matters: Celebrity Worship, Sexual Ecstasies, the Living Dead, and Other Signs of Religious Life in the United States
ISBN: 9781595584847 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Sacred Matters makes the powerful case that we must take the broad view of religious life in America today. Laderman argues that genuinely religious practices and experiences can be found in the unlikeliest of placesin science laboratories, in movie theaters and concert halls, at the Super Bowl, in Americans obsession with prescription drugs and in their pursuit of pornography. Laderman depicts an American cultural landscape blooming with sacred icons, popular devotions, and deep-rooted mythologies. Sacred Matters makes a powerful and illuminating case that religion is...
Sacred Matters makes the powerful case that we must take the broad view of religious life in America today. Laderman argues that genuinely reli...
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Sacred Drugs: How Psychoactive Substances Mix with Religious Life
ISBN: 9781032989631 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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705,83 |
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Religions of Atlanta: Religious Diversity in the Centennial Olympic City
ISBN: 9780788502507 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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80,04 |
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Sacred Drugs: How Psychoactive Substances Mix with Religious Life
ISBN: 9781032989488 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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194,66 |
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Don't Think About Death: A Memoir on Mortality
ISBN: 9781950794126 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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The Sacred Remains: American Attitudes Toward Death, 1799-1883
ISBN: 9780300078688 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) When George Washington died in 1799, towns throughout the country commemorated the event with solemn processions featuring empty coffins. In contrast, after Abraham Lincoln's death in 1865, his body was transported around the North and displayed for more than two weeks, for by then corpses could be autopsied, drained of their blood, and beautified for the benefit of mourners. This absorbing book explores the changing attitudes toward death and the dead in northern Protestant communities during the nineteenth century. Gary Laderman offers insights into the construction of an "American way of...
When George Washington died in 1799, towns throughout the country commemorated the event with solemn processions featuring empty coffins. In contrast,...
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161,47 |
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