TRADITIONAL FUNERAL RITUALS AMONG MUSLIM IMMIGRANTS FROM YUGOSLAVIA IN AUSTRALIA

Abstract

The approach to traditional practice is not easy nor simple, especially if it had to be carried on in new surroundings, and if it deferes from one, already accepted, such is the funeral practice in Australia. The influence of Cristian religion, as the first and most numerous institutional group, on the formation of roles and new tradition, is visible in the case of Islam community which had to clam a protection of personal human rights in buryung members. Some changesare noticable, as well as aboundment of rules aplied at Islam traditional burial. This is an inevitable result of new environment, searching for compromises and adaptations on both siees – the newcomers and the ones earlier settled.