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
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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
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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
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
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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