Religion: Belief and disposal preferences

Murti, R. 2016

‘Cemeteries in Jakarta: corpse treatment and management’, in N. Hinderman & M.R. Sanders (eds) Care, Loss and the End of Life, Leiden: Brill, 13-22.

Nešpor, Z. & Nešporová, O. 2011

‘V žáru lásky se život započal–v žáru ohně se končí’, Sociologický časopis/Czech Sociological Review, 18:4, 563-602.

Onoma, A. 2018

‘The grave preferences of Mourides in Senegal: migration, belonging, and rootedness’, Africa Spectrum, 53:3, 65-88.

Onoma, A. 2019

‘Should Christians and Muslims cohabit after death? Diverging views in a Senegalese commune’, Africa Today, 66:1, 29-50.

Opoko, A. & Adeboye, A. 2021

‘Investigation of willingness of residents to adopt alternative burial methods in Abuja, Nigeria’, IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environment Science, 665, 012060.

Rebay-Salisbury, K. 2012

‘Inhumation and cremation: how burial practices are linked to beliefs’, in M. Sørensen & K. Rebay-Salisbury (eds) Embodied Knowledge: Historical Perspectives on Technology and Belief, Oxford: Oxbow, 15-26.

Reyes-Cortez, M. 2012

‘Living with the dead: cremating and reburying the dead in a megalopolis’, in N. Hinerman & J. Glahn (eds) The Presence of the Dead in Our Lives, Leiden: Brill, 139-164.

Rotar, M. 2015

‘Attitudes towards cremation in contemporary Romania’, Mortality, 20:2, 145-162.

Vandendorpe, F. 2000

‘Funerals in Belgium: the hidden complexity of contemporary practice’, Mortality, 5:1, 18-33.

Wirén, J. 2023

‘Until death do us part? Swedish cemeteries from an inter-faith and no-faith perspective’, Approaching Religion, 13:1, 123-137.

Zadorożny, T. 2020

‘Christian duty to bury the dead and its contemporary challenges’, Studia Nauk Teologicznych, 15, 233-248.

Events

The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract