Places of the Dead and the Living: A Study of Cemetery Religious Symbolism as Funerary Expressions of Religiosity

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15210%2F23%3A73622249" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15210/23:73622249 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.31577/SN.2023.4.37" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.31577/SN.2023.4.37</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.31577/SN.2023.4.37" target="_blank" >10.31577/SN.2023.4.37</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Places of the Dead and the Living: A Study of Cemetery Religious Symbolism as Funerary Expressions of Religiosity

Original language description

This study examines attitudes towards the afterlife and the death of close relatives of the deceased. The research focuses on cemeteries and tombstones, understood as places that can provide information about the bereaved’s funerary expressions of religiosity. We have focused through the perspective of the academic study of religion (Religious Studies) on two Central European regions, specifically along the borders of the Czech Republic, with different levels of declared religiosity. These regions were influenced by different national (Czech, German, and Polish) and religious groups (especially Catholic and Protestant). In total, we have documented almost 10,000 gravestones and developed a quantitative method for the data processing. Our study confirmed the correlation between funeral expressions and declared religiosity as revealed in the Censuses. The research also proved that it is possible to track changes in such expressions over time, as well as differences among national attitudes. Moreover, our results suggest the suitability of the research method for studying relatively small localities rather than large areas with huge populations.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60304 - Religious studies

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Slovensky Narodopis-Slovak Ethnology

ISSN

1335-1303

e-ISSN

1339-9357

Volume of the periodical

71

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

426-447

UT code for WoS article

001194124300007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85182928490