ABSTRACT
The Encyclopedia of Cremation is the first major reference resource focused on cremation. Spanning many world cultures it documents regional histories, ideological movements and leading individuals that fostered cremation whilst also presenting cremation as a universal practice. Tracing ancient and classical cremation sites, historical and contemporary cremation processes and procedures of both scientific and legal kind, the encyclopedia also includes sections on specific cremation rituals, architecture, art and text. Features in the volume include: a general introduction and editorial introductions to sub-sections by Douglas Davies, an international specialist in death studies; appendices of world cremation statistics and a chronology of cremation; cross-referencing pathways through the entries via the index; individual entry bibliographies; and illustrations. This major international reference work is also an essential source book for students on the growing number of death-studies courses and wider studies in religion, anthropology or sociology.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
letter |79 pages
A
entry |4 pages
Advertising: The Rhetoric of Crematoria
entry |1 pages
Aids/Hiv
entry |1 pages
Alternative Spiritualities
entry |1 pages
Ancestors
entry |3 pages
Ancient Greece
entry |1 pages
Animals
entry |1 pages
Apparent Death
entry |6 pages
Archaeology of Britain
entry |2 pages
Architects
entry |11 pages
Architecture
entry |9 pages
Argentina
entry |7 pages
Argentine Cremation Societies
entry |3 pages
Argentine Cremationists
entry |9 pages
Art
entry |8 pages
Ashes
entry |1 pages
Ashes of Isaac
entry |1 pages
Asplund, Erik Gunnar
entry |2 pages
Auschwitz
entry |3 pages
Australia
entry |5 pages
Austria
entry |4 pages
Austrian Cremation Societies
letter |22 pages
B
entry |1 pages
Bahá'ís
entry |1 pages
Note
entry |2 pages
Bali
entry |6 pages
Balkan States (Former Yugoslavia)
entry |1 pages
Barrier, Gustav
entry |2 pages
Belgium
entry |1 pages
Note
entry |1 pages
Boltenstern, Erich
entry |1 pages
Book of Remembrance
entry |1 pages
Borneo/Sarawak
entry |1 pages
British Funerary Companies
entry |1 pages
Brodrick Committee
entry |1 pages
Browne, Sir Thomas
entry |4 pages
Buddhism
entry |1 pages
Business
letter |57 pages
C
entry |1 pages
Cameron, Sir Charles
entry |1 pages
Cana
entry |3 pages
Canada
entry |1 pages
Cannibalism
entry |9 pages
Catholic Church
entry |1 pages
Celebrity
entry |2 pages
Celestis
entry |1 pages
Cemeteries and Crematoria
entry |2 pages
Certificates and Medical Forms (UK)
entry |5 pages
China
entry |1 pages
Cholera and Typhoid
entry |1 pages
Church of England
entry |1 pages
Cineraria
entry |1 pages
Class
entry |1 pages
Cloisters
entry |1 pages
Coffins
entry |1 pages
Coletti, Ferdinando
entry |1 pages
Columbaria
entry |1 pages
Connaught, Duchess of
entry |1 pages
Conveyor-Belt
entry |1 pages
Corpse Symbolism
entry |1 pages
Cremains
entry |1 pages
As Symbolic
entry |1 pages
Cremation Acts and Regulations (UK)
entry |3 pages
Cremation Process
entry |8 pages
Cremation Society of Great Britain
entry |1 pages
Cremationist
entry |3 pages
Crematorium
entry |6 pages
Cremators
entry |1 pages
Cremulation
entry |4 pages
Crime
entry |1 pages
Czech Republic
letter |12 pages
D
entry |1 pages
D'albertis, Luigi Maria
entry |1 pages
Daubenfeld, Dr Arthur
entry |1 pages
Davies' Law of Cremation
entry |2 pages
Death Registration Service
entry |1 pages
Declaration of 1874
entry |3 pages
Denmark
entry |1 pages
de Rosa, Andries
entry |2 pages
Dignity and Violence
entry |1 pages
Dilke, Lady Katherine
entry |1 pages
Doctors
entry |1 pages
Douwes Dekker, Eduard (Multatuli)
entry |1 pages
Dresden
entry |1 pages
Dudok, W.M.
letter |8 pages
E
entry |1 pages
Early Modern Western Europe: 1500–1750
entry |1 pages
Eassie, William
entry |2 pages
Ecology
entry |1 pages
Economics (UK)
entry |1 pages
Epidemics
entry |1 pages
Eternal Reefs
entry |1 pages
Ethiopia: Addis Ababa
entry |3 pages
Execution
letter |35 pages
F
entry |1 pages
Fabretti, Ariodante
entry |1 pages
Fabretti Foundation
entry |1 pages
Falbisaner, Robert Oscar Léon
entry |1 pages
Fayans, Stefan
entry |1 pages
Federation of British Cremation Authorities
entry |3 pages
Film
entry |2 pages
Finland
entry |9 pages
Fire
entry |1 pages
Foetus
entry |1 pages
Fossvogur Church, Reykjavik
entry |1 pages
Fountain Dispersal – Budapest
entry |9 pages
France
entry |1 pages
Frankenstein
entry |3 pages
Freemasonry
entry |1 pages
Freud, Sigmund
entry |1 pages
Fry, Edwin Maxwell
entry |1 pages
Fuel
entry |1 pages
Furnace Shaft Architecture
letter |16 pages
G
entry |3 pages
Gardens of Remembrance (UK)
entry |1 pages
Gender
entry |1 pages
Genoese Cremation Society
entry |2 pages
Germany
entry |1 pages
Ghana
entry |1 pages
Gilgamesh
entry |3 pages
Golders Green Crematorium
entry |4 pages
Greece
entry |1 pages
Guy Fawkes Night
entry |1 pages
Gypsies
letter |27 pages
H
entry |1 pages
Haden, Sir Francis Seymour
entry |1 pages
Hanham Cremations
entry |1 pages
Haweis, Hugh Reginald
entry |1 pages
Hazemann, Dr Robert Henri
entry |1 pages
Heretics
entry |1 pages
Hertz, Robert
entry |1 pages
Hill, Joe
entry |8 pages
Hinduism
entry |1 pages
Holzmeister, Clemens
entry |6 pages
Hong Kong
entry |1 pages
Hope and Fear
entry |1 pages
Humanism
entry |2 pages
Humour
entry |5 pages
Hungary
letter |23 pages
I
entry |3 pages
Iceland
entry |1 pages
Identity
entry |1 pages
Impurity and Purity
entry |1 pages
India
entry |1 pages
International Cremation Federation (ICF)
entry |1 pages
International Movement of Remains
entry |1 pages
Internet
entry |9 pages
Ireland (Eire)
entry |2 pages
Islam
entry |6 pages
Italy
letter |7 pages
J
entry |4 pages
Japan
entry |1 pages
Journals (Italian)
entry |2 pages
Judaism
letter |6 pages
K
entry |1 pages
Kan, J.M.
entry |1 pages
Keller Gottfried
entry |2 pages
Kenya
entry |2 pages
Korea
entry |1 pages
Küchenmeister, Friedrich
letter |28 pages
L
entry |6 pages
Latin (Central and South) America
entry |1 pages
Law
entry |1 pages
Legrain, Paul-Maurice
entry |1 pages
LeMoyne, Francis Julius
entry |1 pages
Lewerentz, Sigurd
entry |1 pages
Lien-Teh, Dr Wu
entry |4 pages
Literary Cremation
entry |5 pages
Luxembourg
entry |1 pages
MacColl, Ewan
entry |3 pages
Malaya, Malaysia and Singapore
entry |1 pages
Materialism and Enlightenment
entry |1 pages
Medicine
entry |1 pages
Memorials and Memorialization
entry |1 pages
Mercury
entry |1 pages
Miasma
entry |1 pages
Mitford, Jessica
entry |1 pages
Monaco
entry |1 pages
Mormonism
letter |12 pages
N
entry |3 pages
Namibia
entry |1 pages
Nazi Cremation
entry |2 pages
Nepal
entry |1 pages
Netherlands: Societies and Law
entry |3 pages
New Zealand
entry |3 pages
Norway
letter |19 pages
O
entry |1 pages
Object Cremation
entry |1 pages
Open-Air Cremation (UK)
entry |1 pages
Penna, Jose
entry |1 pages
Pets
entry |1 pages
Pharos International
entry |1 pages
Phoenix
entry |1 pages
Pini, Gaetano
entry |4 pages
Politics
entry |1 pages
Pollution Prevention and Control Act 1999 (UK)
entry |1 pages
Porte-Cochere
entry |4 pages
Portugal
entry |1 pages
Postmortem Examination
entry |1 pages
Pratt, Honoretta
entry |1 pages
Premature Burial
entry |2 pages
Price, Dr William
letter |1 pages
Q
entry |1 pages
Quakers (Religious Society of Friends)
letter |19 pages
R
entry |1 pages
Rademaker, L.A.
entry |1 pages
Remains
entry |6 pages
Resurrection
entry |3 pages
Rites of Passage
entry |1 pages
Ritual and Symbolism
entry |1 pages
Robinson, William
entry |2 pages
Romania
entry |3 pages
Romans
entry |2 pages
Russia and the USSR
letter |25 pages
S
entry |1 pages
Sati
entry |1 pages
Schulte, Julius
entry |1 pages
Schumacher, Fritz
entry |1 pages
Secondary Burial
entry |1 pages
Secularization and Secularism
entry |1 pages
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
entry |1 pages
Siedek, Oskar
entry |1 pages
Siemens, Friederich
entry |1 pages
Soul
entry |5 pages
South Africa
entry |3 pages
Spain
entry |2 pages
Spontaneous Human Combustion
entry |2 pages
Stephen, James Fitzjames
entry |2 pages
Stockholm Woodland Crematorium
entry |1 pages
Suriname
entry |3 pages
Sweden
entry |1 pages
Switzerland
letter |3 pages
T
entry |1 pages
Tax
entry |1 pages
Telophase Society (USA)
entry |1 pages
‘The Ashes'
entry |1 pages
Thompson, Sir Henry
entry |1 pages
Tibet
entry |1 pages
Typhoid
letter |10 pages
U
entry |1 pages
Undertakers and Early Cremations (UK)
entry |1 pages
Urns
entry |8 pages
Usa
letter |6 pages
V
entry |1 pages
Vaillant, C.J.
entry |2 pages
Vampires
entry |1 pages
Van Lissa, P.K.
entry |1 pages
Vienna Crematorium
entry |2 pages
Viking Sweden
letter |9 pages
W
entry |8 pages
War
entry |1 pages
Westminster Abbey
entry |1 pages
Widlar, Anton
entry |1 pages
Women
letter |6 pages
Z
entry |4 pages
Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)
entry |2 pages
Zoroastrianism
letter |26 pages
Cremation Statistics
entry |1 pages
General Notes
entry |25 pages
Notes On Specific Countries
letter |17 pages
A Chronology of Cremation
