Religion: Orthodox

Andrunina, M. 2018

‘Ambivalent status of sacrum in Slavic traditional culture: cemetery as horrific and holy place’, Русская старина 9, 202-217.

Bouchard, M. 2004

‘Graveyards: Russian ritual and belief pertaining to the dead’, Religion, 34:4, 345-362.

Larson-Miller, L. 2015

‘Roman Catholic, Anglican and Eastern Orthodox approaches to death’,in K. Garces-Foley (ed.) Death and Religion in a Changing World, London: Routledge, 93-121.

Rotar, M. 2020

‘The Romanian Orthodox Church and issues of cremation’, in C. Cann (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Death and the Afterlife, London: Routledge, 60-71.

Toje, H. 2018

‘Accompanying the souls of the dead: the transformation of sacral time and encounters’, in T. Darieva, F. Mühlfried & K. Tuite (eds) Sacred Places, Emerging Spaces: Religious Pluralism in the Post-Soviet Caucuses, Oxford: Berghahn, 113-132.

Vanca, D. 2009

‘Liturgy of funerals in the Orthodox Church at the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th entury, reflected in the first Romanian printed books’, in M. Rotar, V. Tudor Roşu & H. Frisby (eds) Proceedings of the Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe, Cluj-Napoca: Accent, 383-392.

Events

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