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The Narrative of the Good Death
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The Evangelical Deathbed in Victorian England
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Artikel-Nr:
9781472446961
Veröffentl:
2015
Erscheinungsdatum:
28.09.2015
Seiten:
292
Autor:
Mary Riso
Gewicht:
590 g
Format:
234x156x18 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Mary Riso is Program Coordinator for the Division of Education at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts. She received her B.A. in Philosophy from Georgetown University, her M.Div. and Th.M. from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, and her PhD in History from the University of Stirling. Dr. Riso has worked in both scholarly publishing and academic administration. She is the author of Heroines: The Lives of Great Literary Characters and What They Have to Teach Us (Baker), which focuses on heroines from classic nineteenth-century literature.
A good death was as central to Methodism as conversion and holiness. Based on an analysis of 1,200 obituaries, this book contributes to an understanding not only of death but of the history of Methodist and evangelical Nonconformist piety, theology, social background and literary expression in mid-nineteenth-century England, and focuses on the tension in Nonconformist allegiance to both worldly and spiritual matters.
Preface; 1. The cultural landscape of evangelical nonconformist death; 2. Obituaries as literature: form and content; 3. Evangelical nonconformist theology and deathbed piety; 4. The claims of heaven and earth: social background and social mobility; 5. The old dissent and the new dissent: denominational variations; 6. The infinite in the finite: the romantic spirit and nonconformist death; 7. Last words: the experience of death; 8. The good death and a good life; Appendices