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Death and Funeral Practices in Poland book cover

1st Edition

Death and Funeral Practices in Poland

Edited By Anna E. Kubiak, Anna Długozima, Agnieszka Wedeł-Domaradzka Copyright 2024
144 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

144 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

144 Pages 32 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book provides a shortform definitive reference text on funerary practice in Poland. An overview of the important features of the Polish funeral law, funerals, cremations, cemeteries, and funeral industry, the book also covers the demographic characteristic of mortality in Poland. Drawing on original empirical research, the book is interdisciplinary, which facilitates further transnational... Read more

1. Poland: Introduction 

Anna Długozima, Anna E. Kubiak and Agnieszka Wedeł-Domaradzka 

2. History

Anna E. Kubiak, Agnieszka Wedeł-Domaradzka and Anna Długozima 

3. Mortality 

Piotr Szukalski 

4. Legal Framework of Funerals and Cemeteries 

Agnieszka Wedeł-Domaradzka and Anna Długozima 

5. Governance 

Anna Długozima and Agnieszka Wedeł-Domaradzka 

6. Religious Beliefs and Funerary Practices of the Churches 

Anna E. Kubiak and Anna Długozima 

7. The Funeral Industry 

Anna E. Kubiak 

8.The Funeral 

Anna E. Kubiak 

9. Funeral Costs 

Anna Długozima 

10. Cemeteries, Burial Sites, and Graves 

Anna Długozima 

11. Cremation 

Anna E. Kubiak and Anna Długozima 

12. Commemoration and Memorialisation 

Anna Długozima and Agnieszka Wedeł-Domaradzka 

13. Protecting Funerary Heritage 

Anna Długozima

Biography

Anna E. Kubiak is a Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland, and a Lecturer at the Graduate School for Social Research, Warsaw, Poland.

Anna Długozima is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Environmental Engineering at WULS, Warsaw, Poland.

Agnieszka Wedeł-Domaradzka works at the Faculty of Law and Economics at Kazimierz Wielki University, Poland.

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