Bücher von Peter C. Jupp

Seventy per cent of British families now choose cremation for their funerals, a rapid change in traditional death customs. This study is doubly timely with the expanding scholarly interest in death studies, and the new media interest in the British way of death.

The fifteen essays gathered in this book probe the multi-facetted role of death in Scottish history and culture. They explore personal fears of death, anxieties about Predestination, prayers for the dead and the appeal of Spiritualism