Civil Funerals in Romania until the Outbreak of the Second World War
Patterns and Evolutions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16356405 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marius Rotar (0000-0002-7021-4034, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 95 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 937-961 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Revue belge de philologie et d histoire (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0035-0818 • E-ISSN: 2295-9068 |
| Publisher | PERSEE Program (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3406/rbph.2017.9098 |
| OpenAlex | W2996461338 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
This paper analyses the history of non-religious, civil funerals in Romania until the outbreak of the Second World War. The topic of civil funerals is practically unknown in Romanian historiography. In 1879, the first anticlerical attempt to organise a burial outside a Church-related context failed, but triggered considerable public response. The first successful secular burial took place in 1891. The lower degree of secularisation in Romanian society, with the late arrival of a freethinkers’ movement, the absence of a strong influential socialist and trade union movements and the lack of an anticlerical tradition in liberal party politics, were an important factor in the specificity of Romanian practices in relation to death. Civil funerals of communists remained ideologically charged events in the interwar period
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2022 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |