Chapter in monograph
Nešpor, Zdeněk R.

Birth of the „Cremation Power.“ Growth in Cremation and Building of Crematoria in the Czech Republic

Nešpor, Zdeněk R. 2011. „Birth of the „Cremation Power.“ Growth in Cremation and Building of Crematoria in the Czech Republic.“ Pp. 248-262 in Rotar, Marius, Adriana Teodorescu (eds.). Dying and Death in 18th-21st Century Europe. New Castle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 365 s. ISBN 978-1-4438-3208-3.

The chapter analyses history of cremation movement and related waves of construction of crematoria in highly secularized and modernistic society in the Czech lands throughout the 20th century.

Left

Authors: 
doc. PhDr. Zdeněk R. Nešpor, PhD.
Department: 
Economic Sociology
Topics: 
religion and religiosity