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Biblical Mourning : Ritual and Social Dimensions
Saul M. Olyan
Hardcover - $397.95
A comprehensive analysis of the ritual dimensions of biblical mourning rites, this book also seeks to illuminate mourning's social dimensions through engagement with anthropological discussion of mourning, from Hertz and van Gennep to contemporaries ...
Wind River Winter
Virginia Stem Owens
Paperback - $32.95
To read the books of Virginia Stem Owens is to understand what Dylan Thomas once called ?the mystery of having been moved by words.? Her style is contemplative, ecstatic, tender ? always yearning for a purer vision of reality and grace. Wind River Wi ...
Cemetery Walk
Minda Powers-Douglas
Paperback - $45.95
What awaits beyond the cemetery gates .? Journey into the cemetery and beyond with author Minda Powers-Douglas and meet cemetery sextons, gravediggers, preservationists, writers, artists, authors, ghost hunters, the director of a funeral museum, a ge ...
Living Out Loud
Anna Quindlen
Paperback - $23.95
"A panopticon of life in this decade, sure to be valuable to future social historians She touches on life, love, home, family, work, men, women, children and issues large and small."
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
The voice is Anna Quindlen's. But we know the ...
Cemetery Stories : Haunted Graveyards, Embalming Secrets, and the Life of a Corpse After Death
Katherine M. Ramsland
Paperback - $21.95
The bestselling author of "The Vampire Collection" with Anne Rice goes undercover and has conversations with mortuary assistants, gravediggers, funeral home owners, and others as she delves into the fascinating, true, and often morbid world of cemete ...
Death Ritual in Late Imperial and Modern China
Evelyn Sakakida Rawski
Paperback - $59.95
During the late imperial era (1500-1911), China, though divided by ethnic, linguistic, and regional differences at least as great as those prevailing in Europe, enjoyed a remarkable solidarity. What held Chinese society together for so many centuries ...
Death and Bereavement : Psychological, Religious and Cultural Interfaces
Dewi Rees
Paperback - $129.95
This is a comprehensive account of the psychology of death and bereavement, which places the subject within the contexts of the major world religions and their associated mourning and funeral customs. Clearly written, well referenced and carefully or ...
Cremation in America
Fred Rosen
Hardcover - $46.95
A review of the history, the practice, and the industry of this increasingly common, yet still controversial, alternative to burial.
Nearing Death Awareness : A Guide to the Language, Visions and Dreams of the Dying
Mary Anne Sanders
Paperback - $30.95