Dying bodies: Bringing mortality home after the Reformation and the Great Transition
Two enormous shifts in history shape Western culture as we know it today: the Protestant Reformation and what historical theologian Ephraim Radner names the "Great Transition," the health transition that brought modernity its unprecedented low mortality rates and lengthened lifespans. This...
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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Body and religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 4, Issue: 2, Pages: 225-244 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
London
/ Protestantism
/ Health system
/ Reform
/ Funeral
/ History 1837-1901
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IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality CF Christianity and Science CH Christianity and Society KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBF British Isles KDD Protestant Church NCH Medical ethics RA Practical theology |
Further subjects: | B
Protestant Reformation
B health transition B Death B Children B Victorian London |
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