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Encyclopedia of cremation
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ISBN: 1315579502 1317143833 1317143825 1282744011 9786612744013 1849728127 1409423174 9781849728126 9781409423171 9780754637738 0754637735 9781317143833 9781317143826 9781282744011 6612744014 9781315579504 Year: 2005 Publisher: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate,

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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 while also presenting cremation as a universal practice. This work is also an essential sourcebook for students on the growing number of death-studies courses and wider studies in religion, anthropology or sociology.

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The Cremator (paperback).
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ISBN: 8024633345 8024638754 9788024633343 9788024638751 9788024632902 802463290X Year: 2017 Publisher: Prague : Karolinum Press,

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Cremation, corpses and cannibalism : comparative cosmologies and centuries of cosmic consumption
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ISBN: 1443891800 9781443891806 9781443881739 1443881732 Year: 2017 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

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Funeral rites reformation for any African ethnic community based on the proposed new funeral practices for the Agikuyu
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ISBN: 1498290914 Year: 2016 Publisher: Eugene, Oregon : Resource Publications,

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This book has been written on the premise that the mode of coping with death of virtually all African ethnic communities has taken proportions and turns that are neither cultural, scriptural, nor necessary. Current rites are complicated, time-consuming, expensive, and are leaving most families and their neighbors impoverished. They have been extremely commercialized and a large number of Africans do not have resources to bury their dead the "modern" way. Were the Agikuyu (read: Africans) to curb numerous funeral demands which they deem necessary and "customary," when in actual fact they are not, funerals for them would become cheaper, faster, and simpler; would be decent enough for the dead; would take care of those left behind; and would be environmentally friendly. How Africans in the Diaspora, away from their ancestral homeland, should cope with death is also addressed. Also addressed is the issue of cremation. It is shown that at the resurrection, God will accord us new spiritual bodies which will have no bearing with the material substance of our earthly (mortal) bodies.


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Lectus eburneus : Les lits funéraires en ivoire à Cumes et dans le monde romain
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ISBN: 2380500363 9782380500363 2380500339 Year: 2022 Publisher: Naples : Publications du Centre Jean Bérard,

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Les lits funéraires de l’époque romaine sont issus d’une tradition ancienne dont les origines, au-delà des Grecs, remontent aux périodes historiques les plus reculées, en Égypte et au Proche-Orient. Depuis le XIXe siècle, les fouilles ont livré de nombreux vestiges chronologiquement situés pour la plupart entre le IIe siècle av. et le IIe siècle apr. J.-C. ; ils font écho aux restes découverts en contexte domestique, certes moins nombreux, mais dont l’étude autorise des comparaisons intéressantes et une meilleure compréhension du sujet. La grande variété des modèles répertoriés a conduit à l’élaboration d’une typologie détaillée, incluant les formes les plus anciennes jusqu’à celles de la période romaine. Les publications ont fait évoluer de manière significative notre connaissance des lits ornés de bronze ou rehaussés de décorations en os sculpté. En revanche, les attestations de lits en ivoire demeurent extrêmement rares, que ce soit en Italie ou dans l’ensemble du monde romain. La découverte à Cumes des restes de trois exemplaires, dont les décorations étaient sculptées en ce matériau précieux, constitue par conséquent un témoignage essentiel et de premier ordre. Les fragments étaient mélangés aux ossements des défunts et contenus dans des urnes, elles-mêmes déposées au sein d’importants mausolées. La remarquable qualité de facture et la grande finesse d’exécution, bien visibles sur certaines pièces conservées malgré la destruction engendrée par la crémation, ainsi que les thèmes iconographiques mis en scène, attestent des intentions ostentatoires des propriétaires, soucieux de montrer aux vivants leur statut social, leur richesse et leur vertu. La mise en contexte de ces trois lits et leur étude approfondie au regard des occurrences connues a permis de proposer pour chacun une restitution graphique, préambule indispensable à une analyse iconographique et iconologique. Les résultats obtenus, mis en regard des mausolées dans lesquels ils furent découverts, ont…


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Liberating the Liberated : Early Śaiva Tantric Death Rites
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ISBN: 3700184751 9783700184751 3700183313 9783700183310 9783700183310 3700183313 Year: 2018 Publisher: Vienna : Austrian Academy of Sciences Press,

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Burning the dead : Hindu nationhood and the global construction of Indian tradition
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ISBN: 0520976649 9780520976641 Year: 2021 Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press,

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Burning the Dead traces the evolution of cremation in India and the South Asian diaspora across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Through interconnected histories of movement, space, identity, and affect, it examines how the so-called traditional practice of Hindu cremation on an open-air funeral pyre was culturally transformed and materially refashioned under British rule, following intense Western hostility, colonial sanitary acceptance, and Indian adaptation. David Arnold examines the critical reception of Hindu cremation abroad, particularly in Britain, where India formed a primary reference point for the cremation debates of the late nineteenth century, and explores the struggle for official recognition of cremation among Hindu and Sikh communities around the globe. Above all, Arnold foregrounds the growing public presence and assertive political use made of Hindu cremation, its increasing social inclusivity, and its close identification with Hindu reform movements and modern Indian nationhood.


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Funerary practices in England and Wales
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ISBN: 1787692256 178769223X 1787692264 1787692248 9781787692237 9781787692251 Year: 2018 Publisher: Bingley, UK : Emerald Publishing,

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The Funerary International series comprises essential reference texts for policy-makers, practitioners and academics with an interest in funerary practices globally. Each book has a country or region specific focus, addressing a standard framework of questions to aid comparison. This book sets English and Welsh funerary practice in its wider legal, national and local governance framework, including the continuing role of the Church of England. It provides the historical context for current practice, provides data on new trends in burial and cremation and examines recent developments including direct cremation and alkaline hydrolysis. It provides detail of current practice and includes a detailed description of a typical funeral, including commemorative practice, and discussion of funeral costs. Chapters address the legalities and technicalities of burial and cremation, explaining the concept of burial rights and the technicalities of grave construction, and outlining cremation certification requirements and the process of cremation. This book is a valuable desk-top resource to give a broader frame of reference for policy makers, and to provide explanation of key concepts for practitioners who may be new to this area of work. The text will be of particular value to academics that may be unfamiliar with the legal, technical and professional aspects of the funerary industry. The text is fully referenced, with an additional bibliography of further reading, and includes illustrations, charts, tables, diagrams and boxed text including key information.

In search of the great dead
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ISBN: 0809385112 1299050727 0585333963 9780585333960 0809322609 9780809322602 9780809385119 Year: 1999 Publisher: Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press,

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With grim humor and humorous grimness, In Search of the Great Dead engages the great themes of poetry: death and fame. The title poem of this collection records Richard Cecil's quest for the tombs of the famous dead. At first the search leads him on a tour of famous European tombstones-the grave of Chateaubriand in St. Malo, the shared tomb of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas in Pere-Lachaise cemetery in Paris, Yeats's old Celtic cross in Sligo-but gradually it expands into areas where all the tombs have been erased by time or vandalism-the tombs of


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History of modern cremation in Romania
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ISBN: 1443845426 9781443845427 1443842222 9781443842228 9781443842228 Year: 2013 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub.,

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Cremation, as a means of managing the post-mortem body, was reintroduced to Europe at the end of the eighteenth century, but would not become common practice until the second half of the nineteenth century. This was a major development, with multifaceted implications which generated heated debate. Initially, armed with a variety of arguments (hygienic, economic, aesthetic, and philosophical arguments citing freedom of conscience and will) the advocates of modern cremation - who tended to come...

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