The Puritan Way of Death: A Study in Religion, Culture, and Social Change (Galaxy Books)

The Puritan Way of Death is more than a book about Puritans or about death. It is also about family, community, and identity in the modern world. Even before publication, eminent historians, sociologists, and religious scholars in the United States and Europea-among them, Gordon Wood, Philippe Ariès, William Clebsch, and Robert Nisbet-hailed it as a'pathbreaking, provocative, and exciting'work, a'terse, urbane, learned, clear, humane'volume. The Puritan Way of Death is more than a book about Puritans or about death. It is also about family, community, and identity in the modern world. Even before publication, eminent historians, sociologists, and religious scholars in the United States and Europea-among them, Gordon Wood, Philippe Aries, William Clebsch, and Robert Nisbet-hailed it as a "pathbreaking, provocative, and exciting" work, a "terse, urbane, learned, clear, humane" volume. Religion, marriage, and burial of the dead-in these three institutions "all men agree and always have agreed." A scholarly study which focuses on a single aspect of Puritan culture.