From Dust to Ashes: Cremation and the British Way of Death
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.
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From Dust to Ashes: Cremation and the British Way of Death
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.
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From Dust to Ashes: Cremation and the British Way of Death

From Dust to Ashes: Cremation and the British Way of Death

by P. Jupp
From Dust to Ashes: Cremation and the British Way of Death

From Dust to Ashes: Cremation and the British Way of Death

by P. Jupp

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781349401550
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 01/01/2006
Edition description: 1st ed. 2006
Pages: 232
Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

PETER C. JUPP is a United Reformed Church Minister and a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Sociology, University of Bristol, UK. He is a founding editor of the quarterly journal Mortality, Chairman of the Council of the Cremation Society of Great Britain and a non-executive director of the London Cremation Company.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction How The Church Lost Its Monopoly Of Burial, 1820-1852 Cremation Legalised, 1852-1884 The Early Years of Cremation, 1884-1914 The Development of Cremation, 1914-1939 The Advance of Cremation: Wartime and Reconstruction, 1939-1952 The Popularisation of Cremation in England, 1952-2000 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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