The secularization of death in Scotland, 1815-1900
Subtitle: how the funeral industry displaced the church as custodian of the dead (a study of private cemeteries, public crematoria, and bereavement practices in edinburgh)
By: Michael Smith ; with a Foreword by Peter C. Jupp
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Lewiston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780773435216
Subjects: Undertakers and undertaking; History; Death care industry; Religion; Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Peter C. Jupp; title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction; title: Edinburgh - living and dying in a Scottish city; title: The kirk and the funeral industry; title: The kirk and the burden of death; title: Challenging the kirk : the cemetery companies and the state; title: "The doctors of grief" : funeral undertaking in nineteenth-century Edinburgh; title: The public face of death; title: Patterns of mourning; title: Conclusion; title: Bibliography; title: Index.