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The Cultural-ization of the Funeral

Social Sciences

Saving the Funeral from an Untimely Death: We no longer see funerals as worship. We see them as private, sad gatherings for the family.  But we are here to recall a wider, deeper reality, nothing less than the crux of the cosmos: Christ’s resurrection. Students can examine the funeral as an intersection of our liturgy–“doing a public work”–and what the public tends to expect.

 
 
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