Last Rites in a Post-Communist Country. The Introduction of Civil Funeral Rites during the Communist Era and its Consequences for Contemporary Czech Society.
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Last Rites in a Post-Communist Country. The Introduction of Civil Funeral Rites during the Communist Era and its Consequences for Contemporary Czech Society.
Original language description
The paper introduces the specific features of contemporary last rites in the CR. The history of cremation and the introduction of the civil funeral ceremony during the communist era are briefly mentioned since the author is convinced that current death rituals as practised by the majority of Czechs can be seen as a continuation of historical trends and a reaction to the model introduced by the communist regime which consisted of a brief secular funeral ceremony preceding cremation, a model which gradually became more and more popular during the period of communist rule. Currently, the unique situation in the CR can be summed up in three main points: the cremation rate in the CR is the highest in Europe, secular funerals are more popular than religiousceremonies and roughly a quarter of the population choose to have no funeral at all. The author closes her paper with an overview of the principal economic, psychological and social factors which lead people to choose not to have a funera
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
AC - Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/2D06004" target="_blank" >2D06004: Active ageing, family and intergenerational solidarity</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>Z - Vyzkumny zamer (s odkazem do CEZ)
Others
Publication year
2009
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Dying and Death in 18th-21st Centuries Europe
ISBN
978-973-8915-80-0
Number of pages of the result
17
Pages from-to
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Number of pages of the book
296
Publisher name
Editura Accent
Place of publication
Cluj-Napoca
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