The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract
Socialist/Communist
Bădică, S. 2013
‘”I will die Orthodox”: religion and belonging in life stories of the socialist era in Romania and Bulgaria’, in P. Coleman, D. Koleva & J. Bornat (eds) Aging, Ritual and Social Change: Comparing the Secular and Religious in Eastern and Western Europe, Farnham: Ashgate, 43-66.
Binns, C. 1980
‘The changing face of power: revolution and accommodation in the development of the Soviet ceremonial system Part II’, Man, 15, 170-87.
Binns, C. 1979
‘The changing face of power: revolution and accommodation in the development of the Soviet ceremonial system Part I’, Man, 15, 585-606.
Colijn, B. 2016
‘Protestant funerals in contemporary Xiamen: change, resistence and proselytizing in urban China’, Review of Religion and Chinese Society, 3:1, 25-52.
Ćwiek-Rogalska, K. & Wróblewska-Trochimiuk, E. 2022
‘Necroreverence of Soviet cemeteries in Central Europe’, Journal of Historical Geography, 78, 69:83.
Goncharova, G. 2021
‘New dynamics of religious death culture in Bulgaria in the post-socialist transition period’, Mortality, 26:2, 187-201.
Hetmanczyck, P 2018
‘Frugal deaths: socialist imaginations of death and funerals in modern China’, in S. Arvidsson, J. Beneš & A. Kirsch (eds) Socialist Imaginations: Utopias, Myths, and the Masses, London: Routledge.
Lilly, C. 2019
‘Communities of the dead: secularizing cemeteries in Communist Yugoslavia’, Slavonic and East European Review, 97:4, 676-710.
Liu, H. 2021
Market economy lives, socialist death: contemporary commemorations in urban China’, Modern China, 47:2, 178-203.
Malysheva, S. 2018
‘Soviet death and hybrid subjectivity: urban cemetery as metatext’, Ab Imperio, 3/21018, 351-384.
Merridale, C. 2003
‘Revolution among the dead: cemeteries in twentieth-century Russia’, Mortality, 8:3, 176-188.
Keywords
Nešpor, Z. 2021
‘The Czech(oslovak) model? Secular last rites in Central Europe under the communists and beyond’, Mortality, 26:2, 144-156.
Nešpor, Z. 2008
‘From confessional cemeteries to ashes at home: funeral rites in the Czech lands’, in M. Rotar & M. Sozzi (eds) Proceedings of the Dying and Death in the 18th-21st Centuries Europe International Conference, Cluj-Napoca: Accent, 129-144.
Nešporovà, O. 2008
‘Last rites in a Post-Communist country. The introduction of civil funeral rites during the Communist era and its consequences for contemporary Czech society’, in M. Rotar and M. Sozzi (eds) Proceedings of the Dying and Death in the 18th-21st Centuries Europe International Conference, Cluj-Napoca: Accent, 50-66.
Nešporovà, O. & Tóth, H. 2021
‘Communist funeral reform in Central Europe (1948-1989). From religious to civil funerals in Czechoslovakia and Hungary’, OMEGA – Journal of Death and Dying, 87:2, 485-503.
Oyayon, I. 2019
‘Honorer ses morts en socialisme, une économie de l’islam kazakh (1960-1980) Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Médeterranée, 146, 97-118.
Pashova, A. 2013
‘“A workplace remains empty today”: a new ideology of death and funerary ritualism during the State Socialism in Bulgaria (1950s-1970s), Balkanistic Forum, 2013:2, 89-108.
Keywords
Pavićević, A. 2021
‘A minute’s silence: the development of modern cremation in the European communist countries’, Mortality, 26:2, 157-170.
