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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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 How the Church Lost Its Monopoly of Burial, 1820โ1852
- 3 Cremation Legalised, 1852โ1884
- 4 The Early Years of Cremation, 1884โ1914
- 5 The Development of Cremation, 1914โ1939
- 6 The Advance of Cremation: Wartime and Reconstruction, 1939โ1952
- 7 The Popularisation of Cremation in England, 1952โ2000
- 8 Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index