The Puritan Way of Death: A Study in Religion, Culture, and Social ChangeThe 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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afterlife American Andover Ariès Ariès’s attitudes toward death Awakening belief body Boston burial Cambridge cemetery ceremony chapter Charles Chauncy childhood Christ Christian church coffin Colonial concern corpse Cotton Mather culture damnation dead death and dying death’s-head deceased depravity Diary divine doctrine earlier earthly England Puritans English eternal example fact fear of death funeral ritual funeral sermon funerary God’s Greven Heaven Hell Ibid idea important Increase Mather individual jeremiad John John Weever John Winthrop Jonathan Edwards Judgment least Leonard Hoar literature living London man’s Massachusetts Middle Ages modern Moriendi mortality Mount Auburn nineteenth century observed one’s Perry Miller Philippe Ariès postmortem Puritan Puritan community Puritan funerals recent Reformation Religion religious response resurrection Saints salvation Samuel Sewall sense seventeenth century Sewall Sewall’s social society Solomon Stoddard soul spiritual theme things Thomas Shepard thought torment traditional vision William Winthrop wrote Yale University York