Pohřební zvyklosti mladé církve. Prolegomena k nekrogeografii Církve
                           československé husitské (a pravoslavné církve) v meziválečném období











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            * Nešpor Zdeněk R.
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            Funeral Customs of a Young Church. Prolegomena to Necrogeography of the Czechoslovak Hussi

            Orthodox Church) in the Interwar Period

            Abstrakt

            This study complements and concludes the necrogeographic analysis of the Czech lands, and 
            overview of the confessional burial grounds of the Czechoslovak (Hussite) Church and the O
            We can glean from the available sources that local and regional “Czechoslovak” cemeteries 

            although the Church as a whole (unsuccessfully) attempted to “nationalise” existing cemete
            the Church came to accept the interconfesional character of these cemeteries, and at the s

            it vehemently established its own columbariums and urn burial grounds. Despite of the fact
            Czechoslovak (Hussite) Church permitted the cremation of some members of other churches, a
            atheists, and for some time, its clergymen took part of the cremation ceremonies, the Chur

            not discuss the matter, nor did it form any official Church standpoint on this issue. Due 
            Church reasons, cremation as such was only inadvertently proclaimed on the pages of its ce
            magazine, Český zápas, and that beginning from the mid-1920s, although cremation was de fa

            standard within the Church at this time. The burial practices of the members of the Czecho
            Church in the interwar period thus anticipated the future inclinations of the majority of 


            Klíčová slova
            Death; funerals; cremation; necrogeography; Czechoslovak Hussite Church; Orthodox Church


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