Cremation in Interwar Romania

The Case of the Potter’s Field

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ID13629323
AuthorsMarius Rotar (0000-0002-7021-4034, History Department, ‘1 Decembrie 1918’ University of Alba Iulia, Alba Iulia, Romania, corresponding author), Timotei Stoian Grapă (History Department, ‘1 Decembrie 1918’ University of Alba Iulia, Alba Iulia, Romania)
Year2024
Pages302228241284687-302228241284687
Publication date2024-09-13
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueOMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0030-2228 • E-ISSN: 1541-3764
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/00302228241284687
PMID39275809
OpenAlexW4402544689
LanguageEN
References cited8

This article aims to analyse the activities of Potter's Field practice in Romania as part of the Patriarch Miron Orthodox Association. From its very beginning it was orientated against the apparition of cremation in Romania, realized in the first cremation at the Cenușa Crematorium in Bucharest (1928). The target was to 'save' poor people from cremation, considering that the cremation aimed to remove from the local authorities the pressure of supporting the costs of burials for unidentified bodies and bodies that were unclaimed by families ('the social cremations'). Therefore, the Potter's Field practice developed in Romania in an original way in comparison to other countries. This situation indicated a way of translating cremation into reality in Romania and expressed some of its particularities in this country (the implication of the authorities, cremation as a personal choice or the forms of criticism by the religious environments)

Ancient history · Archaeology · Criticism · Field (mathematics · Political science · Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning · French Historical and Cultural Studies · History · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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