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Corpse care : ethics for tending the dead / Cody J. Sanders, Mikeal C. Parsons.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2023]Copyright date: �2023Description: xii, 150 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781506471310
  • 1506471315
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 265.850937 23/eng/20230124
LOC classification:
  • BT826 .S26 2023
Contents:
The corpse : from antiquity to antebellum garden cemeteries -- The corpse : from the Civil War to the industrialization of deathcare -- The corpse in the web of life : a practical theology -- The corpse to come : imagining deathcare anew.
Summary: Corpse Care relates the history of death care in the U.S. to craft robust, constructive, practical ethics for tending the dead. It specifically relates corpse care to economic, environmental, and pastoral concerns. Death and the treatment of the dead body loom large in our collective, cultural consciousness. The authors explore the materiality and meaning of the dead body and the living's relationship to it. All the biggest questions facing the planetary human community relate in one way or another to the corpse. Surprisingly, Christian communities are largely missing in the discussion of the dead, having abdicated the historic role in care for the dead to the funeral industry. Christianity has stopped its reflection about the body once that body no longer bears life. Corpse Care stakes a claim that the fact of embodiment, this incarnational truth, this process of our bodily becoming, is a practical, ethical, and theological necessity. -- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Print book for loan Krauth Memorial Branch Philadelphia General Collection BT826.S26 2023 Available 31794003223634
Print book for loan Wentz Memorial Branch Gettysburg General Collection (Lower Level) BT826 .S26 2023 Available 31826003538098

Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-145) and index.

The corpse : from antiquity to antebellum garden cemeteries -- The corpse : from the Civil War to the industrialization of deathcare -- The corpse in the web of life : a practical theology -- The corpse to come : imagining deathcare anew.

Corpse Care relates the history of death care in the U.S. to craft robust, constructive, practical ethics for tending the dead. It specifically relates corpse care to economic, environmental, and pastoral concerns. Death and the treatment of the dead body loom large in our collective, cultural consciousness. The authors explore the materiality and meaning of the dead body and the living's relationship to it. All the biggest questions facing the planetary human community relate in one way or another to the corpse. Surprisingly, Christian communities are largely missing in the discussion of the dead, having abdicated the historic role in care for the dead to the funeral industry. Christianity has stopped its reflection about the body once that body no longer bears life. Corpse Care stakes a claim that the fact of embodiment, this incarnational truth, this process of our bodily becoming, is a practical, ethical, and theological necessity. -- Provided by publisher.

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