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I. Religious Studies – II. Archaeology – III. Old Testament – IV. Judaism – V. Christianity – VI. Missiology – VII. Funerary Art

I. Religious Studies

A burial manifests and represents the culture-bound nature of personality and religious traditions that shape community; consequently, it is also a key to the metaphysics of cultural and civil religion.

The history of research in religious studies is associ…

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Schulz, Hermann, Wenning, Robert, Kuhnen, Hans-Peter, Hachlili, Rachel, Köpf, Ulrich, Daiber, Karl-Fritz, Felmy, Karl Christian, de Wall, Heinrich, van 't Spijker, Gerard and Sörries, Reiner, “Burial”, in: Religion Past and Present. Consulted online on 28 March 2024 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1877-5888_rpp_COM_01866>
First published online: 2011
First print edition: ISBN: 9789004146662, 2006-2013



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