Concept information
Preferred term
spontaneous shrines
Definition
- Leaving flowers, candles, teddy bears, hearts, or cards on sites where people died a violent death has become a regular practice since the 1990s, at least in the Western world. In academia, it has become custom to refer to such commemorative sites as “spontaneous shrines,” a term coined by Jack Santino. [Source: Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience; Spontaneous Shrines]
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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/spontaneous_shrines
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