A Century of Funeral Change in Burial Practices: From Church Burial to Cremation without a Ceremony
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Result on the web
<a href="https://ceskylid.avcr.cz/cz/article/itm-2755868" target="_blank" >https://ceskylid.avcr.cz/cz/article/itm-2755868</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.21104/CL.2023.2.01" target="_blank" >10.21104/CL.2023.2.01</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
A Century of Funeral Change in Burial Practices: From Church Burial to Cremation without a Ceremony
Original language description
The article describes changes in funeral practices in Czech society which occurred during the 20th century. The first half of the 20th century was specific in the emergence of cremation. The Communist era (1948-1989) was characterized by a huge expansion in the popularity of cremation (the cremation rate in Czechoslovakia had reached 55% by 1988) as well as by a significant increase in the proportion of secular funerals which, by the end of the 1980s, were being conducted for around three-fifths of the deceased. Contemporary Czech funeral practices can be seen as a direct continuation of those of previous generations and are noteworthy in terms both of having one of the highest cremation rates in Europe (80%) and, even more strikingly, the extraordinarily high rate of cases (around one quarter to one third) in which no funeral ceremony is held at all for the deceased. A large number of contemporary Czechs seem not to see the need to define their social identity by means of a funeral.
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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
50404 - Anthropology, ethnology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Český lid
ISSN
0009-0794
e-ISSN
2570-9216
Volume of the periodical
110
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
30
Pages from-to
127-156
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85164745424