The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Contemporary practices: Netherlands
Arfman, W. 2014
‘ Innovating from traditions: the emergence of a ritual field of collective commemoration in the Netherlands’, Journal of Contemporary Religion, 29:1, 17-32.
Faro, L. 2021
‘Monuments for stillborn children and disenfranchised grief in the Netherlands: recogition, protest and solace’, Mortality, 26:3, 264-283.
Heessels, M. 2012
Bringing Home the Dead: Ritualizing Cremation in the Netherlands, Nijmegen: Radboud University.
Heessels, M. 2012
‘Every funeral unique in (y)our own way! Professionals propagating cremation rituals’, in D.J. Davies and C. Park (eds) Emotion, Identity and Death: Mortality Across Disciplines, London: Routledge, 125-143.
Heessels, M. & Venbrux, E. 2009
‘Secondary burial in the Netherlands: rights, rites and motivations’, Mortality, 14:2, 119-132.
Heessels, M., Poots, F. & Venbrux, E. 2012
‘In touch with the deceased: animate objects and human ashes’, Material Religion, 8, 466-488.
Klaasens, M. & Groote, P. 2014
‘Postmodern crematoria in the Netherlands: a search for a final sense of place’, Mortality, 19:1, 1-21.
Mathijssen, B. 2023
‘The human corpse as aesthetic-theraputic’, Mortality, 28:1, 37-53.
Mathijssen, B. 2013
‘Pastors and relatices: enacting Protestant and Catholic funeral liturgies in the Netherlands’, in E. Venbrux, T. Quartier, C. Venhost & B. Mathijssen (eds) Changing European Deathways, Wien: Lit Verlag, 213-238.
Mathijssen, B. 2017
Making Sense of Death: Ritual Practices and Situational Beliefs of the Recently Bereaved in the Netherlands, Zurich: Lit Verlag.
Mathijssen, B. 2017
‘The ambiguity of human ashes: exploring encounters with cremated remains in the Netherlands’, Death Studies, 41: 1, 34-41.
Mathijssen, B. & Venhorst, C. 2019
Funerary Practices in the Netherlands, Bingley: Emerald Publishing.
Peelen, J. 2009
‘Reversing the past: monuments for stillborn children’, Mortality, 14:2, 173-186.
Van Steen, P. & Pellenbarg, P. 2006
‘Death and space in the Netherlands’, Tijdshrift voor Economische en Social Geographie, 97:5, 623-35.
Venbrux, E., Peelen, J. & Altena, M. 2009
‘Going Dutch: individiualisation, secularisation and changes in death rites’, Mortality, 14:2, 97-101.
