Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe (Dying and Death Studies)

This book features a selection of the most representative papers presented during the international conference Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe (ABDD). It invites you on a fascinating journey across the last three centuries of Europe, with death as your guide. The past and present realities of the complex phenomena of death and dying in Romania, the United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Serbia, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, and Italy are dealt with, by authors from varying backgrounds: historians, sociologists, priests, humanists, anthropologists, and doctors. This is yet more proof that death as a topic cannot be confined to one science, the deciphering of its meanings and of the shifts it effects requiring a joint, interdisciplinary effort. Steps in the cold shadow / Marius Rotar and Adriana Teodorescu Death and modernization / Iona Kemppainen How sacred is secular death? And just how secular can sacred death be? A theoretical proposal / Adela Toplean A place for the dead : 'Angels' and 'Heaven' in personalized eschatology / Thomas Quartier 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 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 These horrid superstitions : death and dying amongst the English 'folk', c. 1840-c.1914 / Helen Frisby Honour and death in military and militaristic discourse in Romania (1859-1918) / Mihai Chiper Collective interments : ossuaries and brotherly mounds in Bulgaria, 1944-1989 / Nikolai Vukov Infanticide : between a private matter and public concern in Serbia from 1800 to 1860 / Aleksandra Vuletic Welcoming home the dead : exhumation and reburial of famous deceased in Serbia / Aleksandra Pavicevic The death of the star : social and cultural issues / Adriana Teodorescu Body, culture, and place : towards an anthropology of the cemetery / Alessandro Gusman and Cristina Vargas The natural burial ground Bergerbos : an alternative place of burial in the Netherlands / Mirjam Klaassens and Peter Groote Birth of the "cremation power" : growth in cremation and building of crematoria in the Czech Republic / Zdeněk R. Nešpor On cremation in interwar Romania / Marius Rotar Liminal bodies of the dead and dying : ritual and the construction of social identity / Janneke Peelen and Joanna Wojtkowiak Death and memory in the context of the contemporary Bulgarian street posted obituary / Emiliya Karaboeva Everprivate grief in public space : roadside memorials in the Czech Republic / Olga Nešporová The modern hospice movement : a quiet revolution in end of life care / Ken Worpole. This book features a selection of the most representative papers presented during the international conference Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe (ABDD). It invites you on a fascinating journey across the last three centuries of Europe, Other death as your guide. The past and present realities of the complex phenomena of death and dying in Romania, the United Kingdom, Bulgaria, Serbia, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, and Italy are dealt Other, by authors from varying backgrounds: ..