Author: Kselman, Thomas A.
Title: Death and the Afterlife in Modern France
Description: Princeton, Princeton University Press, (1993). orig.cloth. 24x16cm, xvii,413 pp.. Minor rubbing. A small spot to flyleaf. VG. ¶ Contents: Mortality & Mortal Knowledge: Progress & Anxiety in French Demography; Folk, Orthodox, and Alternative Churches: Folk Religion: Tales of the Dead; Catholicism & the Cult of the Dead; Alternative Afterlives in the 19th-Century; The Material Culture of Death: From Churchyard to Cemetary; The Origins of Commercial Funerals; The Diffusion & Reform of Pompes Funèbres; Epilogue: Courbet's 'Burial at Ornans' & the Cult of the Dead.

Keywords: Historical Sociology, French Catholicism, Death Dead, Cemeteries, Funerals Funerary, Anthropology, Social History, France Religion, Ethnography