The faces of death : the secularization of mourning and death in the Gilded Age
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Body and Religion
Abstract
The Rural Cemetery Movement ushered in a new way of thinking about cemeteries in American society after 1831. As these cemeteries became civic assets, they were widely visited by people and became a mediated space for articulating and expanding collective memory. The gravestones and monuments in these cemeteries erected in the second half of the nineteenth century combined increasingly secular messages and memory in a sacrosanct setting, thus blur-ring the lines in cemeteries between the secular and the sacred
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1558/bar.18301
Publication Date
2022
Recommended Citation
Smith, Jeffrey E., "The faces of death : the secularization of mourning and death in the Gilded Age" (2022). Faculty Scholarship. 414.
https://digitalcommons.lindenwood.edu/faculty-research-papers/414