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Sherrod, S. Marc.

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That great and awful change: Death and Protestant practical theology in the American northeast, 1700--1900.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	That great and awful change: Death and Protestant practical theology in the American northeast, 1700--1900./
Author:	Sherrod, S. Marc.
Description:	280 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-04, Section: A, page: 1512.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-04A.
Subject:	History, United States. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3130518
ISBN:	0496777661

That great and awful change: Death and Protestant practical theology in the American northeast, 1700--1900.
Sherrod, S. Marc.

That great and awful change: Death and Protestant practical theology in the American northeast, 1700--1900. - 280 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-04, Section: A, page: 1512.

Thesis (Th.D.)--Harvard University, 2004.

Historians of death in America have given insufficient attention to the role of Protestant clergy and their churches in mediating the symbols, beliefs, and spiritual practices that enabled survivors to overcome the angst associated with dying, death and grief. Various theories have been offered to explain the American way of death, including secularization and consensus models. But these models fail to account for the rich religious content and variation over time represented by deathbed, funeral, and gravesite performances of hope and consolation, particularly the manner in which practical theology and pastoral practices informed the everyday world of church members who faced the reality of death.

ISBN: 0496777661Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017393
History, United States.

That great and awful change: Death and Protestant practical theology in the American northeast, 1700--1900.
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520 $a This thesis clusters an analysis of ministry with death's survivors around three interrelated topics: the dead body, funeral rites, and consolation practices. The close reading of various pastoral "death" materials (e.g. funeral sermons, last days narratives, cemetery consecration addresses, ministry guides, funeral manuals, and consolation literature) enables the historian to understand better the theological frame of reference and practices of piety that eased the burden of mortality. The shifts in the religious uses of the corpse from an object lesson on sin to an object of admiration, the transition of funeral rites from a time to rehearse fundamental beliefs to a time to commemorate the deceased, and mourning seen as an occasion to focus on "my" grief instead of the spiritual crisis of "my" dying represented momentous changes in the American history and culture of death. This regional study, spanning two centuries of pastoral discourse on death, offers an angle of vision on the role of ministry practices in shaping the emergence of new ideas about death and bereavement.
520 $a Rather than being passive participants in the changes that transpired in America's spiritual and cultural landscape of death, both conservative and liberal Protestant clergy kept religious affirmations relevant as churches faced the ambiguity and paradox of death as both friend and foe. An analysis of the intersection of practical theology with the history of death lends critical perspective on the contemporary pastoral problem of death.
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