Funerary practices in Serbia / Aleksandra Pavicevic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pavicevic, Aleksandra, author.

Contributor:

ebrary, Inc.

Series:

Funerary international series.

Funerary international series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Funeral rites and ceremonies--Serbia.

Funeral rites and ceremonies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), map

Edition:

First edition

Place of Publication:

Bingley, England : Emerald Publishing Limited, [2021]

Summary:

Funerary Practices in Serbiais the first book to offer a concise yet highly informative study of the historical development and current state of funerary practices in Serbia. It explores the historical roots of contemporary funerary practices in the country and provides illuminating insight into how death is "managed" in Serbia today.

Contents:

Cover

FUNERARY PRACTICES IN SERBIA

Funerary International Series

Copyright

CONTENTS

LIST OF MAPS

LIST OF IMAGES

LIST OF BOXES

LIST OF TABLES

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1. Serbia: An Introduction

2. Historical Framework and the Development of Funerary Practices

2.1 Before 1804 (First Serbian Uprising)

2.1.1 Precedents of Modern Health-Care System

2.2 From the First Serbian Uprising (1804) to Independent Principality of Serbia (1878)

2.2.1 Hospitals and Anatomy Departments

2.3 Three Kingdoms (1882-1941)

2.3.1 Early History of Medical Examination and Autopsy

2.3.2 Laws and Regulations

2.3.3 Insurance and Mortuary Societies

2.3.4 New Cemetery in Belgrade, a Paradigm of a New Concept

2.3.5 Pioneering Days of Modern Cremation

2.4 World War I and II

2.5 Communist Yugoslavia

2.5.1 Opening the Crematorium

2.6 From Postcommunism to Current Period

3. Demographic and Legal Framework

3.1 Population

3.2 Economic Activity, Migration, Urbanization

3.3 Ethnic and Religious Overview

3.4 Mortality and Main Causes of Death

3.5 Registration of Death and Formal Procedures

3.6 Autopsies, Embalming, and Organ Donation

3.7 Exhumation and Transport of the Deceased

3.8 Laws Regulating Funeral Practices

3.9 The Codex of Funerary Services

4. Governance and the Funeral Directing Industry

4.1 Levels of Governance

4.2 Public Enterprises

4.3 Private Companies

5. Paying for the Funeral

5.1 Meeting the Cost

5.2 Average Funeral Prices

6. Serbian Orthodox Church and Funeral Practices

6.1 Church and State

6.2 Territorial Organization of the Serbian Orthodox Church and the Cost of Ceremonies

6.3 The Role of the Serbian Church in Funerals

6.4 Requiem

7. A Typical Funeral

7.1 Place of Dying

7.2 Immediately after Death.

7.3 Announcing Death

7.4 Arranging the Funeral

7.5 Clothes

7.6 The Wake

7.7 Day of Funeral

7.8 The Funeral

7.9 Music and Photography

7.10 After the Funeral

7.11 Mourning and Commemoration

7.12 Wearing Black

7.13 All Souls Days/Zadušnice

7.14 Headstones

8. Religious and Ethnic Variations

8.1 Religious and Ethnic Cemeteries: Historical Overview

8.2 Roman Catholics

8.3 Muslims

8.4 Roma

8.5 Protestants

8.6 Jews

9. Management of Cemeteries

9.1 Short History of Cemeteries

9.1.1 Belgrade Cemeteries

9.1.2 Statute for Serbian Orthodox Cemeteries in Novi Sad

9.2 Organization of Cemeteries

9.3 Ownership, Use, and Inheritance of Graves and Tombs

9.4 Equipment and Technical Organization of Cemeteries

9.5 Technical Features of Graves

9.6 Types of Cemeteries

9.6.1 Special Plots within Cemeteries

9.6.2 Alley of the Great and Alley of Distinguished Citizens

9.7 War Memorials

9.8 Informal Memorials

9.9 Conservation

10. Cremation

10.1 Cremation from 1964 to Present Time: A Brief Historical Overview

10.2 Number, Location, and Ownership of Crematoria

10.3 Procedure and Cost of Cremation

10.4 Handling Cremated Remains

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

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Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781787691797

1787691799

9781787691810

OCLC:

1237406550