The faces of death: The secularization of mourning and death in the Gilded Age
The Rural Cemetery Movement ushered in a new way of thinking about cemeteries in American society after 1831. As these cemeteries became civic assets, they were widely visited by people and became a mediated space for articulating and expanding collective memory. The gravestones and monuments in the...
| Published in: | Body and religion |
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| Subtitles: | "Special Issue: Corpses and their material extensions in Protestantism" |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox Publishing
2020
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| In: |
Body and religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Cemetery
/ Gravestone
/ Secularization
/ History 1831-1915
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| RelBib Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality CD Christianity and Culture CH Christianity and Society KBQ North America RA Practical theology TJ Modern history |
| Further subjects: | B
Monuments
B rural cemetery movement B Cemetery B gravestone B Collective Memory |
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| Summary: | The Rural Cemetery Movement ushered in a new way of thinking about cemeteries in American society after 1831. As these cemeteries became civic assets, they were widely visited by people and became a mediated space for articulating and expanding collective memory. The gravestones and monuments in these cemeteries erected in the second half of the nineteenth century combined increasingly secular messages and memory in a sacrosanct setting, thus blurring the lines in cemeteries between the secular and the sacred. |
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| ISSN: | 2057-5831 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Body and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/bar.18301 |