The Puritan Way of Death: A Study in Religion, Culture, and Social Change

By David E. Stannard

Book Overview

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 Ari s, William Clebsch, and Robert Nisbet-hailed it as a "pathbreaking, provocative, and exciting" work, a "terse, urbane, learned, clear, humane" volume.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195025210
• ISBN13: 9780195025217
• Release Date: February 1979
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0"