Religious and secular models of power achieved through funeral ritual: Ancient paradigms

This paper researches why and in which way Athenian polis, and since Byzantine era also the Church, made efforts to take over the control over funeral rite. How, why and under which circumstances pagan ritual moved from private to public sphere? How were the roles in the ritual distributed?...

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Main Author: Stevanović Lada
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Ethnography, SASA, Belgrade 2016-01-01
Series:Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU
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Online Access:http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-0861/2016/0350-08611602375S.pdf