Ebook: Die Dinge, die bleiben: Reliquien im interdisziplinären Diskurs

In a burial, objects of material culture are carefully preserved: photos, articles of clothing, letters, commemorative urns or diamonds. While the Catholic church has long maintained a tradition of ritual veneration of holy remains, Protestantism does not encourage such practices. In late modern religious and burial customs, however, these differences between the faiths tended to become blurred.