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How might landscapes be better designed to accommodate increasing cremation practices in Europe?
Landscape Online, 2020 Death is one of those universal parameters of life, yet very little attention is given to it in neither the work of planning practitioners nor that of landscape research.
Anna Długozima
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"Oganj - association of cremation in Belgrade": Development, ideas and symbols [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2006 And although the development and spreading of the idea of cremation, as well as mentioned laws, could be seen as the beginning of secularization of death death has remained, for a long time, closely associated with this or that religious beliefs and ...
Pavićević Aleksandra
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Dying to Go Green: The Introduction of Resomation in the United Kingdom
Religions, 2021 In an age where concern for the environment is paramount, individuals are continuously looking for ways to reduce their carbon footprint—does this now extend to in one’s own death? How can one reduce the environmental impact of their own death?
Georgina M. Robinson
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Българско е-Списание за Археология, 2022 The paper reviews a group of five Early Medieval necropolises on the territories of modern-day Northeast Bulgaria and Southeast Romania, which demonstrate some intriguing features.
Vladimir Staykov
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Earliest evidence for intentional cremation of human remains in Africa. [PDF]
Sci AdvHuman cremation on an open pyre demands intensive labor, communal resources, and sensory exposures. We report the earliest evidence for intentional cremation in Africa, the oldest in situ adult pyre in the world, and one of only a few associated with ...
Cerezo-Román JI +14 more
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Cremation and Christianity: English Anglican and Roman Catholic attitudes to cremation since 1885 [PDF]
, 2017 Britain was the first modern European country to adopt the widespread practice of cremation, and by 2010, it took place in around three-quarters of all funerals. Although the clergy had ceased to be the exclusive custodians of funeral ritual, their views
Frances Knight, Knight, Frances
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Heritage, 2023 Differentiating cremated non-human bones from human ones in archaeological contexts is a challenging task. This analysis aims at proposing a rather solid criterion based on an osteoarchaeological sample.
Omar Larentis
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Tradition and the culture of rights at the crossroads: A literary perspective
Literator, 2015 Using cultural theories, this article focuses on a literary text that presents a fresh perspective on one of the cultural practices of disposing of a dead body, namely cremation.
Nompumelelo B. Zondi +1 more
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African Theological Journal for Church and Society, 2022 This article explores cremation as an alternative way of disposing of the dead among African Christians in Kenya. It examines the theological justification for this practice as an accepted way of disposing of the dead. The study applies the Zerfass Model[
Francis Omondi
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