Bertram S Puckle: 2 books
by Bertram S. Puckle
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Funeral Customs
by Bertram S. Puckle
"A funeral is a ceremony marking a person's death. Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember the dead, from the funeral itself, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honor....
by Bertram S. Puckle
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
AN exhaustive treatise on funeral customs, ancient and modern, has yet to be written. Leaving to the theologian and philosopher the thankless task of assigning the mystery of death its proper place and functions in the scheme of creation, the writer has confined himself to a general survey of those practices...