TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sanders,Cody J.
AU  - Parsons,Mikeal C.
TI  - Corpse care: ethics for tending the dead 
SN  - 9781506471310
AV  - BT826 .S26 2023
U1  - 265.850937 23/eng/20230124
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Minneapolis
PB  - Fortress Press
KW  - Dead
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Death care industry
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Morts
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - Christianisme
KW  - Industrie funéraire
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire
KW  - fast
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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