Introduction – rethinking the agency of the dead : reasons, triggers and contexts

Hesz, Ágnes (author), Ivnik, Tina (author), Uhrín, Michal (author)

• Language: English
• Keywords: agency of the dead, afterlife, beliefs, death, the supernatural, relationship between the living and the dead
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.20 - Preface, editorial, afterword
• Organization: FF - Faculty of Arts
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Publication date: 01.01.2026
• Year: 2026
• Number of pages: Str. 11-16
• Numbering: Letn. 29
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-188037
• UDC: 2-186:39
• ISSN on article: 1408-6271
• DOI: 10.3986/SMS20262902
• COBISS.SI-ID: 291497987
• Publication date in RUL: 17.09.2026

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Studia mythologica Slavica
• Shortened title: Stud. mythol. Slav.
• Publisher: Znanstvenoraziskovalni center Slovenske akademije znanosti in umetnosti, Inštitut za slovensko narodopisje, Università degli Studi di Pisa, Dipartimento di Linguistica, già Istituto di Lingua e Letteratura
• ISSN: 1408-6271
• COBISS.SI-ID: 75272960

Licences

• License: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
• Link: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Description: This is the standard Creative Commons license that gives others maximum freedom to do what they want with the work as long as they credit the author.

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: delovanje mrtvih, posmrtno življenje, verovanja, smrt, nadnaravno, živi, mrtvi, odnos med živimi in mrtvimi

Projects

• Funder: EC - European Commission
• Project number: 101095729
• Name: The roles of the agency of the dead in the lives of individuals in contemporary society
• Acronym: DEAGENCY