Funeral Customs of a Younf Church. Prolegomena to Necrogaography of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church (and the Orthodox Church) in the Interwar Period
2015
Abstract
The study complements and concludes the necrogeographic analysis of the Czech lands, and presents an overview of the confessional burial grounds of the Czechoslovak (Hussite) Church and the Orthodox Church. While the former Church came to accept the interconfesional character of the cemeteries, it vehemently established its own columbariums and urn burial grounds.
Despite of the fact that the Czechoslovak (Hussite) Church favorized cremation of ites members, permitted the cremation of some members of other churches, as well as of atheists, and for some time, its clergymen took part of the cremation ceremonies, the Church itself did not discuss the matter, nor did it form any official Church standpoint on this issue.