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The Contents and Functions of the 49-Day Funeral Rites in Modern Korean Buddhism
This article explores the history and procedures of the 49-day Buddhist funeral ceremony, which functions as a ritual for the dead and a healing tool for the bereaved.
Hyungong Moon, Brian D. Somers
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Funeral rites are significant instrument used in expressing, reaffirming and reinforcing life after death among the Yoruba’ and its not just limited to burying the dead but involves a series of rituals that are performed prior to and after the burial ...
JOSEPH-OLUYEMI Adesoji +2 more
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Japanese funeral rites in late modernity
Funerals in Japan are always a highly serious and solemn affair. Japanese funerals whether they are ancient or modern are always official activities with ancient traditional practices. Often, there are no bells, whistles, drums, or fanfare.
A. Rappa
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The Distinctive Features of Belarusian Traditional Funeral Repasts [PDF]
In Belarusian traditional culture, the funeral repast was an important part of the structure of funeral rites. Its meaning had as much to do with ethics as with sustenance and it was a required or normative part of funerary behaviour in the Belarusian ...
Navahrodski, Tadevush A.
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A costume in the funeral rituals of the Mari people
Introduction. Burial rites, which are a traditional object of research in archeology and ethnography, are one of most stable elements of ethnic culture.
Anzhelika N. Pavlova
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Purpose. The authors tried to reveal the reasons, duration and place of temporary preservation of the bodies of the Kazakhs on the basis of archaeological, historical and folklore-literary sources.
K. Iskakov +3 more
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The paper deals with the analysis of the funeral and memorial rites of Ludic Karelians of the Kondopozhsky District. The information of the rites is founded on the materials of the first ethnological expedition undertaken in 1956 under the leadership of ...
Sergey Minvaleev
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The role of the furnace in Karelians funeral and memorial rites and folk medicine
Introduction. The article studies the role of the furnace in funeral-memorial rite and folk medicine of the Karelians. The study examines the functions of the furnace at all stages of the funeral-memorial rite, starting with the death of a person.
Yevgeniy V. Karakin, Tatyana V. Pashkova
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