Burial Rites

• Author : Hannah Kent
• Publisher : Pan Macmillan
• Release : 29 August 2013

Inspired by a true story, Hannah Kent's Burial Rites was shortlisted for The Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction, The Guardian First Book Award and The International IMPAC Dublin Literary Awards. In northern Iceland, 1829, Agnes Magnúsdóttir is condemned to death for her part in the brutal murder of her lover. Agnes is sent to wait out her final months on the farm of district officer Jón Jónsson, his wife and their two daughters. Horrified to have a

• Author : Church Publishing
• Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
• Release : 28 July 2021

• Author : Church Publishing
• Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
• Release : 01 February 2007

These newly authorized rites are intended to be a supplement to the burial services in the Book of Common Prayer, adding a rich variety of new material from many sources, including prayers for one who has died in military service, for one of unknown faith, for an unbeliever, and for a member of an inter-faith family. All of the major pastoral issues of the Prayer Book rites are addressed from the reception of the body to the consecration of the

• Author : Bendann,
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 11 January 2013

Published in the year 2007, Death Customs is a valuable contribution to the field of Asian Studies.

• Author : Michael Scot
• Publisher : Berkley
• Release : 01 August 1987

A team of archaeologists recovering a sunken Viking ship inadvertently set free the Ice King, an ancient Viking horned god in search of victims

• Author : Hannah Kent
• Publisher : Little Brown & Company
• Release : 10 September 2013

Based on a true story, tells the tale of a young woman in Iceland in 1829 who was accused of murder and sent to an isolated farm to await execution and tells the farmer's family her side of the story.

• Author : Abraham Ajala
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 28 July 1992

• Author : Helen Belknap Richardson
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 28 July 2021

• Author : B. Carozzi
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 23 December 2015

• Author : Austin Echema
• Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
• Release : 28 July 2021

Igbo Funeral Rites is about the rigorous and complex nature of death and burial obsequies in Igboland. Analytical as it is descriptive and anthropological as it is theological, the book is an attempt to provide new insights for handling some of the pastoral challenges of Igbo funeral rites. It exhibits admirable maturity by acknowledging the need for flexibility along with harmonization.

• Author : Virginia Lee
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 28 July 2021

• Author : Sam Lucy
• Publisher : Sutton Pub Limited
• Release : 28 July 2021

This account of death and burial in Anglo-Saxon England offers insights into the society and customs of the Anglo-Saxons, their way of life and their understanding of the world. A detailed study of cemeteries, grave-goods and human remains is included.

• Author : Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology Martin Millett
• Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
• Release : 28 July 2021

Although a large number of cemeteries have been explored in Roman Britain they have never been seen as central to the study of the province. This collection of twenty-eight papers, from a symposium held at the University of Durham in 1997, explores different approaches to examine the contribution that cemeteries can make to our wider understanding of Roman society. The papers are grouped under five headings: The reconstruction of mortuary rituals; Burial and social status; The dead in the landscape; Burial

• Author : Sneža Tecco Hvala
• Publisher : Založba ZRC
• Release : 01 January 2012

• Author : Johnson Nganga Mbugua
• Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Release : 17 June 2016

This book has been written on the premise that the mode of coping with death of virtually all African ethnic communities has taken proportions and turns that are neither cultural, scriptural, nor necessary. Current rites are complicated, time-consuming, expensive, and are leaving most families and their neighbors impoverished. They have been extremely commercialized and a large number of Africans do not have resources to bury their dead the "modern" way. Were the Agikuyu (read: Africans) to curb numerous funeral demands