Dying and death in 18th-21st century Europe
By: edited by Marius Rotar and Adriana Teodorescu
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781443832083; 9781443855471
Subjects: Thanatology; Death; Congresses; History, Modern 1601-; Attitude to Death; Mortuary Practice; History
Notes: Selected conference papers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Steps in the cold shadow / Marius Rotar and Adriana Teodorescu; title: Death and modernization / Iona Kemppainen; title: How sacred is secular death? And just how secular can sacred death be? A theoretical proposal / Adela Toplean; title: A place for the dead : 'Angels' and 'Heaven' in personalized eschatology / Thomas Quartier; title: The order of funeral services in the Romanian Orthodox Church at the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th century, reflected into the first Romanian printed books / Dumitru Vanca; title: Understanding death in the 21st century : Vito Mancuso and his re-assessment of the Christian teaching on death from the perspective of man's historical experience / Corneliu C. Smiut; title: These horrid superstitions : death and dying amongst the English 'folk', c. 1840-c.1914 / Helen Frisby; title: Honour and death in military and militaristic discourse in Romania (1859-1918) / Mihai Chiper; title: Collective interments : ossuaries and brotherly mounds in Bulgaria, 1944-1989 / Nikolai Vukov; title: Infanticide : between a private matter and public concern in Serbia from 1800 to 1860 / Aleksandra Vuletic; title: Welcoming home the dead : exhumation and reburial of famous deceased in Serbia / Aleksandra Pavicevic; title: The death of the star : social and cultural issues / Adriana Teodorescu; title: Body, culture, and place : towards an anthropology of the cemetery / Alessandro Gusman and Cristina Vargas; title: The natural burial ground Bergerbos : an alternative place of burial in the Netherlands / Mirjam Klaassens and Peter Groote; title: Birth of the "cremation power" : growth in cremation and building of crematoria in the Czech Republic / Zdeněk R. Nešpor; title: On cremation in interwar Romania / Marius Rotar; title: Liminal bodies of the dead and dying : ritual and the construction of social identity / Janneke Peelen and Joanna Wojtkowiak; title: Death and memory in the context of the contemporary Bulgarian street posted obituary / Emiliya Karaboeva; title: Everprivate grief in public space : roadside memorials in the Czech Republic / Olga Nešporová; title: The modern hospice movement : a quiet revolution in end of life care / Ken Worpole.