Funeral Rituals and Cemeteries in Europe
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/eslm.156.0165" target="_blank" >10.3917/eslm.156.0165</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Funeral Rituals and Cemeteries in Europe
Original language description
Funeral rituals reflect our culture. The paper deals with perception of rituals and cemeteries, the anonymous survey was conducted to start a dialogue about ritual in : Austria, Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Questions were created on the background of practices and knowledge from history. The opened answers showed attitudes to rituals and cemeteries in today’s society. ... The meaning of the word ritual is broad, for this work was meant the religious one, few definitions of ritual are given by (Nelson-Becker, Sangster, 2018). In Europe the religion rituals and cemeteries are closely connected with Christianity, but rituals and graves are characteristic for any religion and culture. The first and maybe the most important question is, if any ritual is necessary in a human life ? According to the French ethnologist Arnold van Gennep it is : “Every change in the situation of an individual includes actions and reactions between the profane and the sacred, actions and reactions which must be regulated and monitored so that the general society does not experience embarrassment or shame. This is the very reality of life which requires successive passages from one particular society to another and from one social situation to another” (Gennep, 1909). The passage was not only performed during the ceremony but was articulated by architecture as well. From the earliest funeral structures in Europe can be mentioned Dolmens (Figure 1), for example in Carnac (Lauda, 1946), where the corridor took place before the funeral chamber. Another type of later graves were Tumuli, they were used by few cultures, for example by Celts. Their graves were hidden, looking like a small natural hill, but there were single or multiple graves inside, after a long corridor. Next to the tomb of Celtic Prince of Glauberk in Germany there was a life-size statue of himself made of sandstone, armed with a wooden shield, tunic and a typical La Tén sword (Herrmann, Frey, 1996)…
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60500 - Other Humanities and the Arts
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Etudes sur la Mort
ISSN
1286-5702
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
2021/2
Issue of the periodical within the volume
156
Country of publishing house
FR - FRANCE
Number of pages
19
Pages from-to
165-184
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-17600155137