Cremation in Modern Scotland
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (714 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1906566798 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 356 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-29 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Stephen White is a retired Senior Lecturer from Cardiff Law School.. Hilary Grainger is a Dean and Professor of Architectural History at the University of the Arts, London, and Chair of the Victorian Society. Gordon Raeburn is a lecturer in Historical and Philosophical Studies at Melbourne University. Peter Jupp is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh
Changes in funeral practice provide a lens through which to inspect changes in wider social identity, values and religious beliefs. Until recently, Scotland’s 28 crematoria have been the ‘invisible buildings’ of the twentieth century, absent from architectural histories. The book adopts an interdisciplinary approach, analysing particularly the part played by Scottish law and architecture. This book reveals how, in Scotland, as in other societies, death ways and funeral arrangements are closely related to other aspects of life, from religious beliefs to political convictions, from family relationships to class structure, from poverty to prosperity. The book analyzes the challenge this new building type provided for architects: a building with no architectural precedent, at once secular and religious, functional and symbolic.
Gordon Raeburn is a lecturer in Historical and Philosophical Studies at Melbourne University. Peter Jupp is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh. About the AuthorHilary Grainger is a Dean and Professor of Architectural History at the University of the Arts, London, and Chair of the Victorian Society. Stephen White is a retired Senior Lecturer from Cardiff Law School.