Death and Afterlife in Modern France.
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TextSeries: Princeton legacy libraryPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (432 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781400862986
- 1400862981
- Funeral rites and ceremonies -- France -- History -- 19th century
- Death -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
- France -- History -- 19th century
- Funérailles -- Rites et cérémonies -- France -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- France -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- HISTORY -- Europe -- France
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Death & Dying
- Death -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
- Funeral rites and ceremonies
- France
- Anthropology
- Social Sciences
- Manners & Customs
- 1800-1899
- 393.0944
- GT3249.A2
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Although today in France church attendance is minimal, when death occurs many families still cling to religious rites. In exploring this common reaction to one of the most painful aspects of existence, Thomas Kselman turns to nineteenth-century French beliefs about death and the afterlife not only to show how deeply rooted the cult of the dead is in one Western society, but how death and the behavior of mourners have been politicized in the modern world. Drawing on sermons preached in rural and urban parishes, folktales, and accounts of seances, the author vividly re-creates the social and.
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