God's Acre

God's Acre

Author: Marguerite Dommett

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2013-11-29

Total Pages: 59

ISBN-13: 1291650180

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This book contains the parish magazine publications over 6 year period for a local church in Hampshire.


Encyclopedia of Cremation

Encyclopedia of Cremation

Author: Lewis H. Mates

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-29

Total Pages: 879

ISBN-13: 1317143825

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The Encyclopedia of Cremation is the first major reference resource focused on cremation. Spanning many world cultures it documents regional histories, ideological movements and leading individuals that fostered cremation whilst also presenting cremation as a universal practice. Tracing ancient and classical cremation sites, historical and contemporary cremation processes and procedures of both scientific and legal kind, the encyclopedia also includes sections on specific cremation rituals, architecture, art and text. Features in the volume include: a general introduction and editorial introductions to sub-sections by Douglas Davies, an international specialist in death studies; appendices of world cremation statistics and a chronology of cremation; cross-referencing pathways through the entries via the index; individual entry bibliographies; and illustrations. This major international reference work is also an essential source book for students on the growing number of death-studies courses and wider studies in religion, anthropology or sociology.


From Dust to Ashes

From Dust to Ashes

Author: P. Jupp

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2005-12-15

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 0230511082

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Seventy per cent of British families now choose cremation for their funerals, a rapid change in traditional death customs. This is the first book to investigate why cremation replaced burial. It examines the political, religious, economic and social reasons behind personal choice and sets them in a European context. This study is doubly timely with the expanding scholarly interest in death studies, and the new media interest in the British way of death.