Deathscapes in Finnish funerals during Covid-19

IF 0.4 0 RELIGION
A. Vähäkangas
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Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted and reshaped experiences of bodily disposal and memorialization around the world. One key characteristic of almost all religious practices and traditions is the centrality of face-to-face gatherings (Baker et al. 2020). The spatial turn shows the need to study space and place in research on religion (Knott 2010). Avril Maddrell has utilized a spatial lens for death studies with her concept of the deathscape, by which she means both the places associated with death and the dead and how these are infused with meaning (Maddrell and Sidaway 2010). The aim of my article is to uncover which spaces were used in Finnish funerals and what they reveal about deathscapes during Covid-19. The forty-five pieces of correspondence that form the qualitative data of the research were received between October 2020 and February 2021; they offer some important, real-time insights into how funeral spaces and burial places were experienced during the two first waves of the pandemic. The findings reveal that participation in the ritual was more important than the actual site of the funeral, burial or memorial. The findings indicate that deathscapes in Finnish funerals during Covid-19 typically dealt with how ritual space was created during restrictions. The physical site was important as long as it created ritual space and was aligned with the personality of the deceased. Central to these actively created spaces was that they followed the deceased body either physically, virtually or spiritually. The latter was a conceptual finding from the data and a means by which the writers pointed to spatialities of belief and virtual attendance that were not digitally mediated.
新冠肺炎期间芬兰葬礼上的死亡场景
新冠肺炎大流行扰乱并重塑了世界各地的身体处置和纪念体验。几乎所有宗教实践和传统的一个关键特征是面对面聚会的中心地位(Baker等人,2020)。空间转向表明了在宗教研究中研究空间和地点的必要性(Knott,2010)。Avril Maddrell在死亡景观的概念中利用了空间镜头进行死亡研究,她指的是与死亡和死者相关的地方,以及这些地方是如何被赋予意义的(Maddrell和Sidaway,2010)。我这篇文章的目的是揭示芬兰葬礼中使用了哪些空间,以及它们揭示了新冠肺炎期间的死亡场景。构成研究定性数据的45封信件是在2020年10月至2021年2月期间收到的;它们提供了一些重要的实时见解,了解在第一波疫情期间,葬礼场所和埋葬场所的体验。研究结果表明,参与仪式比葬礼、葬礼或纪念馆的实际地点更重要。研究结果表明,新冠肺炎期间芬兰葬礼的死亡场景通常涉及限制期间如何创造仪式空间。只要它创造了仪式空间,并与死者的个性相一致,物理场所就很重要。这些积极创造的空间的核心是,它们在身体上、虚拟上或精神上跟随死者的身体。后者是从数据中得出的概念性发现,也是作者指出信仰和虚拟出席的空间性的一种手段,而这些空间性并不是数字媒介。
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