Death and Afterlife in Modern France

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Although today in France church attendance is minimal, when death occurs many families still cling to religious rites. In exploring this common reaction to one of the most painful aspects of existence, Thomas Kselman turns to nineteenth-century French beliefs about death and the afterlife not only to show how deeply rooted the cult of the dead is i

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"Such is the wealth of research and scholarship in this intriguing book that there is almost enough for several volumes... [I]t is a volume of unusual richness, and is meticulous in its documentation. Above all, it is sensitive to the complexities and paradoxes."--Journal of Religious History