Retour sur les rites piaculaires: Pratiques et rôles dans l'immédiat et à distance

Approached for the first time by Durkheim inThe Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), the mourning rituals («piaculary» ) are to be found in every society. Despite the trendtosecularization of modern societies, they have not vanished, and their twin functions of individualization and socialization are to be observed, a.o. in the cremation ceremonies as well in the demonstrations of collective mourning linked either to a moral panic or to the building-up of emotions by the media.SCOPUS: ar.j