Social impacts of individualization of death in contemporary Czech society

Number:

GPP404/11/P725

RILSA Principal investigator:

Mgr. Olga Nešporová, Ph.D.

Grant provider:

Czech Science Foundation (GA CR)

Recipient:

Research Institute for Labour and Social Affairs (RILSA)

Project start:

2011

Project end:

2013

Description:

The project focuses on the hitherto neglected area of burial and funeral rituals in contemporary Czech society. Using combined research and analytical methods, the current burial practice will be described and explained. The output will be a monograph and professional studies / articles.

Outputs

NEŠPOROVÁ, Olga, 2024. On death and burial (2nd edition). Brno: CDK. (only in CZE)

NEŠPOROVÁ, Olga, 2014. Burial without any ceremony: sociological perspective. In. O posledních věcech člověka. Praha: Galén, 2014, 219–231. (only in CZE)

NEŠPOROVÁ, Olga & Irina STAHL, 2014. Roadside memorials in the Czech Republic and Romania: Memory versus religion in two European post-communist Countries. In. Mortality. Promoting the interdisciplinary study of death and dying, 19(1), 22–40.

NEŠPOROVÁ, Olga, 2013. A century of funeral changes: from church burial to cremation without a ceremony. In. Český lid. Etnologický časopis, 100(2), 183–204. (only in CZE)

NEŠPOROVÁ, Olga, 2013. On death and burial. Brno: CDK. (only in CZE)

NEŠPOROVÁ, Olga, 2011. Everprivate grief in public space: Roadside memorials in the Czech republic. In. Dying and death in 18th–21st century Europe. Newcastle upon Tyme: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 331–350.

NEŠPOROVÁ, Olga & Zdeněk R. NEŠPOR, 2011. “Life begins in the heat of love and ends in the heat of fire.” Four views on the development of cremation in Czech society. Soudobé dějiny, 18(4), 563–602. (only in CZE)

NEŠPOROVÁ, Olga, 2011. Death and dying. Overlooked public-policy topicsk. Fórum sociální politiky, 5(6), 15–19. (only in CZE)