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Changing Customs in the late 1990s

Dahlgren, Curt LU and Hermanson, Jan (2005) p.60-64
Abstract
In the late 1990s in Sweden a growing number of people chose to scatter the ashes of their cremated relatives in places other than public or private burial grounds. The option of scattering was, itself, made possible in 1957, and is strictly regulated. It is possible to see the private taking care of the ashes as a post-modern way of relating to rites of death. The purposes of these acts are to handle and structure a process, an event, an important value, or to create a meaning-shaping situation, which involves a considering of the will and intention of the deceased.
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sociology of religion, psychology of religion, cremation, ashes, burial
categories
Popular Science
host publication
Encyclopedia of Cremation
editor
Davies, Douglas J and Mates, Lewis H
pages
60 - 64
publisher
Ashgate
ISBN
0-7546-3773-5
language
English
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yes
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The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015. The record was previously connected to the following departments: Centre for Theology and Religious Studies (015017000)
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  author       = {{Dahlgren, Curt and Hermanson, Jan}},
  booktitle    = {{Encyclopedia of Cremation}},
  editor       = {{Davies, Douglas J and Mates, Lewis H}},
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  keywords     = {{sociology of religion; psychology of religion; cremation; ashes; burial}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  pages        = {{60--64}},
  publisher    = {{Ashgate}},
  title        = {{Changing Customs in the late 1990s}},
  year         = {{2005}},
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