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Intersection of the Religious and the Secular: The Cemetery Festival in Latvia

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15210%2F21%3A73611797" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15210/21:73611797 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/12/2/69" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/12/2/69</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Intersection of the Religious and the Secular: The Cemetery Festival in Latvia

  • Original language description

    This article addresses the commemoration of the deceased by examining a peculiar Latvian religious tradition—the cemetery festival. Latvian society is moving down the path to secularization. Participation in religious ritual practices could be expected to decrease in a predominately secular society. Nevertheless, the tradition of the cemetery festival practiced in Latvia shows that the relationship between the religious and the secular is much more complex than simply being in opposition to each other. The analysis is based on data obtained by undertaking fieldwork at cemeteries in Latvia. Participant observation and qualitative in-depth interviews were the main research tools used in the fieldwork. Through an analysis of the fieldwork data, this article explains, first, how honoring of the deceased currently takes place in Latvia; second, the factors which have determined the preservation of the cemetery festival tradition despite the forced secularization of the Soviet period and the general secularization encountered today; third, the relationship between religious and secular activities and their transformation at the cemetery festival.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    60304 - Religious studies

Result continuities

  • Project

    <a href="/en/project/GA18-11345S" target="_blank" >GA18-11345S: Atheism, Freethought and Secularization in Central and Eastern European Countries in the 20th and 21st Centuries</a><br>

  • Continuities

    P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

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

    Religions

  • ISSN

    2077-1444

  • e-ISSN

  • Volume of the periodical

    12, 69

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    2

  • Country of publishing house

    CH - SWITZERLAND

  • Number of pages

    18

  • Pages from-to

    1-18

  • UT code for WoS article

    000623133900001

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85099925404