The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Contemporary practices: Italy
Bartolemei, L. 2013
Notes on the evolution of cemetery areas in Italy’ in E. Venbrux, T. Quartier, C. Venhost & B. Mathijssen (eds) Changing European Deathways, Wien: Lit Verlag, 107-118.
Breschi, M., Ruiu, G. & Francini, M. 2018
‘“Ashes to ashes…”: could the recent evolution of the cremation practice in Italy be interpreted as an indicator of secularisation?’, Review of Religious Research, 60:519-533.
Colombo, A. & Vlach, E. 2021
‘Why do we go to the cemetery? Religion, civicness and the cult of the dead in twenty-first century Italy’, Review of Religious Research, 63:2, 217-243.
