Death, Loss, Memory and Mourning in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1780-1914

Volume II: Religious, Spiritual and Ecclesiastical Responses to Death, Loss, Memory and Mourning
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-28264-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 420 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 793 g

This four-volume interdisciplinary collection explores loss, memory, and mourning in the long nineteenth century. Primary sources explore death and mourning from literary, spiritual, historical, and intellectual perspectives. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary, this collection will be of great interest to students and scholars of the History of Emotions.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davies, Douglas

Whitefield, Ricky

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologie: Sachbuch, Ratgeber
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Christliches Leben & Praxis
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Volume II. Religious, Spiritual and Ecclesiastical Responses to Death, Loss, Memory and Mourning

Acknowledgements

List of Illustrations

General Editor Note

Preface

Introduction

Part 1. Doctrines: Theological Words Against Death

1. Charles Drelincourt, The Christian Defence Against the Fears of Death, (Liverpool: Nuttall, Fisher, and Co, 1810 [1651]), pp. 42-49.

2. John Angell James, The Antidote of Death, (London: Hamilton Adams, 1856), pp. 3-12, 17-26.

3. Henry Mitchinson, The Death of the Righteous, (London: Simpkin Marshall, 1859), pp.3-14.

4. John Asgill, An Argument to Prove that Death is not Obligatory on Christians, (London: Ennis Bros, 1875), pp. 62-66; 125-126.

5. Stewart Salmond, ‘The Doctrine of Final Destinies’, The Christian Doctrine of Immortality, (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1901), pp. 353; 389-394.

6. Edward Cure, Sudden Death: Is It to be Deprecated? (London: Rivington, 1883), pp. 3-15.

7. William Knox, A Clerical Symposium on what are the Foundations of the Belief in the Immortality of Man, (James Nisbet and Co., 1885), pp. 30-62.

8. Thomas Erskine, The Brazen Serpent; or, Life Coming Through Death, (Edinburgh: Waugh & Innes, 1879), pp. 84-95, 126-137.

9. James Fleming, Recognition in Eternity, (London: Skeffington, 1899), pp. 3-12.

Part 2. Devotions: Coping with Death, Transforming Grief

10. Richard Whately, A View of the Scripture Revelations concerning a Future State laid before his Parishioners by a Country Pastor, (London: Parker & Sons, 1882), pp. 88-93.

11. Francis Paget, ‘The Lord’s Prayer: A Manual for the Mourner’ in The Living and the Dead: A Course of Practical Sermons on the Burial Service, (Cambridge: John Thomas Walters, 1845), pp. 193-207.

12. Richard Price, On the Reasons for Expecting that Virtuous Men Shall Meet after Death in a State of Happiness, (London: Unknown, 1798), pp. 3-13, 21-27.

13. William Dealtry, The Character and Happiness of them that Die in the Lord, (London: Hatchard & Son, 1822), pp. 20-47.

14. James Montgomery, A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief, (Philadelphia: J. Ditson & Co, 1883), pp. 3-5.

15. Jeremy Taylor, Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying, (Longmans, Green, and Co, 1850 [1650]), pp. 9-34, 35-50, 68-78.

16. Anon, A Token for Mourners, with a Selection of Scripture Promises, Relative to the Troubles of Life, (Glasgow: Booksellers, 1855), pp. 18-23.

17. John Keble, ‘The Burial of the Dead’ in The Christian Year, (London: Dent & Co, 1900 [1827]), pp. 273-274.

18. Anon, The Christian's Consolation in the Hour of Domestic Distress, (London: F and C Rivington, 1793), pp. iii-iv; 30-43.

19. William Alexander, ‘The Mystery of Sickness’ in The Great Question and Other Sermons, (London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885), pp. 30-44.

20. Samuel Johnson, ‘His Wife’s Death’, in Elton Trueblood (Ed.), Doctor Johnson’s Prayers, (London: SCM Press, 1947 [1782]), pp. 79-85.

Part 3. Duties in Common and Private Contexts

21. Thomas Scott, The Duty and Advantage of Remembering Deceased Ministers, (London: J. Seely, 1808), pp. 1-35.

22. James Fleming, The Forsaken Hero, (London: Larner and Knight, 1885), pp. 3-12.

23. Noah Miles, ‘A Sermon on the Death of George Washington, late President, and Commander in Chief of the Armies of the United States of America’ (Amherst, MA: S. Preston, 1800), pp. 5-16.

24. Charles Vaughan, The Mourning of the Land and the Mourning of its Families, (Cambridge: Macmillan, 1861), pp. 5-17.

25. John Miller, Things After Death: Three Chapters on the Intermediate State, (London: J. Rivington, 1848), pp. 41-64.

26. Henry Liddon, Life in Death: A Sermon at the Funeral of the Lord Bishop of Salisbury (Salisbury: Brown & Co., 1869), pp. 3-15.

27. Francis Paget, ‘Faith, Patience, Thankfulness: The Graces of Bereavement’ in The Living and the Dead: A Course of Practical Sermons on the Burial Service, (Cambridge: John T. Walters, 1845), pp. 41-58.

28. James MacGregor, The State of the Christian Dead, (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1897), pp. 3-22.

29.  Nicholas Chevalier,‘Service of Thanksgiving for the Recovery of Edward, Prince of Wales, from Sickness and Mortal Danger’ (1872)

Part 4. Dramatic Discourses

30. John Macgowan, Death, a Vision; or, the Solemn Departure of Saints and Sinners, Represented under the Similitude of a Dream, (London, W. Baynes, 1796), pp. 46-56.

31. Eli Forbes, Sorrow Balanced with Joy: A Sermon at the Funeral of the Rev. Benjamin Tappan, (London: T. Cushing, 1790), pp. 5-15.

32. Benjamin Mardon, The Evanescence of Human Glory (London: Smallfield, 1837), pp. 5-29.

33. John G. Hewlett, The Sunset of Youth, (London: Ward, 1847), pp. 7-35.

34. Anon, Life Beyond the Grave, as Described by a Spirit, through a Writing Medium, (London: E.W. Allen, 1876), pp. 40-49.

35. E.B. Crawford, A Dialogue Between Death and the Sinner, (Dublin: Unknown, 1870), p.1.

36. Elizabeth Rowe, Friendship in Death: Letters from the Dead to the Living, (W. Nicholson, 1808), pp. 1-4; 9-12; 25-30.

37. H.O.F, The Hour of Death and the Invisible World, (London: James Nisbet & Co, 1882), pp. 1-13, 31-41.

38. George MacDonald, Letters from Hell, (London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1885), pp. 1-14.

39. Robert Rogers, ‘What Kind of Place is Heaven?’ in Views of the New Heaven: Lectures on the Inhabitants, Phenomena, and Order of the World to Come, (London: James Speirs, 1902), pp. 47-68, 128-149

40. Thomas Rowlandson, The English Dance of Death, (London: Ackermann, 1816), pp. 290-295.

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Douglas Davies is Professor of Theology at Durham University, with interests in death, mourning, and crematoria.

Rick Whitefield is a Junior Research Fellow at St John’s College, Durham University in Theology and Research Associate of the Centre for Death and Life Studies with interests in anthropology, memory, and mourning.