"A sacred relic kept: Protestant relics and "the good death" experience in nineteenth? century America
By at least the 1830s, evangelical Protestants in the United States considered relic collection and distribution to be an essential part of an individual's "good death" experience. Protestant relics took form as bodily and contact relics. Bodily relics included locks of hair, pictures...
| Subtitles: | "Special Issue: Corpses and their material extensions in Protestantism" |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Published: |
Equinox Publishing
2020
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| In: |
Body and religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 4, Issue: 2, Pages: 195-224 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Protestantism
/ Relic
/ Commemoration of the dead
/ History 1800-1900
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| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality CE Christian art KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBQ North America KDD Protestant Church NBK Soteriology NCB Personal ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Hair
B Memento mori B Material Religion B good death B Civil War Bibles B Protestantism B Protestant relics B religious bodies B Evangelicalism B deathbeds |
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