The Puritan Way of Death

The Puritan Way of Death is more than a book about Puritans or about death. It is also about family community and identity in the modern world. Even before publication eminent historians sociologists and religious scholars in the United States and Europea-among them Gordon Wood Philippe Ariès William Clebsch and Robert Nisbet-hailed it as a pathbreaking provocative and exciting work a terse urbane learned clear humane volume.