Religions for and against Cremation
List of religions that allow or permit cremation
Ásatrú, Buddhism, Christianity (containing Baptist Church, Calvinism, Church of England, Church of Ireland, Church of Scotland, Church in Wales, Lutheranism, Methodism, Moravian Church, Roman Catholicism, Salvation Army, Scottish Episcopal Church), Christian Science, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) (permitted but discouraged), Hare Krishna (ISKCON), Hinduism (mandatory except for sanyasis, i.e., monks and children under five), Jainism, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Liberal Judaism, Seventh-day Adventist Church, Sikhs, Society of Friends (Quakers), Unitarian Universalism
List of religions that are against or forbid cremation
Bahá’í Faith, Presbyterianism, Eastern Orthodox Church, Iglesia ni Cristo, Islam, Orthodox Judaism, Zoroastrianism
Neo-Confucianism under Zhu Xi strongly discourages cremation of one’s parents’ corpses as unfilial.
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