The Puritan Way of Death: A Study in Religion, Culture, and Social Change

by David E. Stannard

Book Overview

This is more than a book about Puritans or about death. It is also about family, community, and identity in the modern world. The book is an intelligent and highly original study of 17th-century attitudes toward death, which were profoundly different from those in our own time. Prof. Stannard's object is not merely to understand that period but to provide a perspective on the present. He skillfully combines historical research with important hypotheses...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195022262
• ISBN13: 9780195022261
• Release Date: October 1977
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 5.8"