From Dust to Ashes Cremation and the British Way of Death

Peter C. Jupp

2006

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Seventy per cent of British families now choose cremation for their funerals, a rapid change in traditional death customs. This is the first book to investigate why cremation replaced burial. It examines the political, religious, economic and social reasons behind personal choice and sets them in a European context. This study is doubly timely with the expanding scholarly interest in death studies, and the new media interest in the British way of death.

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Book information

ISBN:	9780333692981
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date:	01 Mar 2006
Edition:	2006
DEWEY:	393.20941
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	232
Weight:	470g
Height:	223mm
Width:	142mm
Spine width:	18mm