REFIGURING DEATH RITES

‘Refiguring Death Rites’ investigates new ritualizations of death in the Netherlands. The Netherlands is known as one of the most secularized countries in the world. The processes of secularization and individualization put the traditional religious rituals increasingly out of favour, resulting in a quest for new rituals.

Especially in death rites experimentation and innovation is taking place, facilitated by the consumer-oriented undertaking business, and leading to expressions of a more personalized religiosity in materialized form. 

This documentary reports on the research program of the Centre of Thanatology at the Radboud University Nijmegen, investigating new ritualizations of death in the Netherlands to gain insight into the ways average people who no longer adhere to specific world religions nevertheless practice religion in a different sort of way.

(ref: www.ru.nl/ct/)