Sentence examples for funerary practices from inspiring English sources

Winterthur has also documented the varied funerary practices in Pennsylvania.

In creating reliquaries, early Christians followed Roman funerary practices.

Funerary practices differed from one part of Korea to the next.

Traditional Tibetan funerary practices are described in the Bardo Thödol (Tibetan "Book of the Dead").

It is still a matter of quarantine and safe funerary practices: shut you away and bury you nicely.

Many of the mourning traditions predated the standardized funerary practices of the world's major organized religions, let alone the current system of nation-states.

Two major traditions of interpretation have provided the basic assumptions of religious eschatologies and have often found expression in mortuary rituals and funerary practice.

Another funerary practice, this one peculiar to the Liao dynasty, involved the cremation of a corpse according to Buddhist custom, then sealing the ashes into the chest of a life-size wooden mannequin whose face was modeled and painted to resemble that of the deceased.

The third episode, "The Man Who Saw Jesus," attempts to recreate the life of a man from pre-Canaanite times whose bones were interred using a special funerary practice common in Jerusalem from 20 B.C. to A.D. 70.

In Cretan context, the Linear B writing system, the funerary architecture and burial practices of the Mainland style are interpreted as evidence of an actual "Mycenaean" long-term settlement and political domination of Knossos.

The practice of certain Egyptian funerary customs also contributed to the preservation of many Egyptian books.