Speaking with the dead in early America /

In Speaking with the Dead in Early America, Erik Seeman undertakes a 300-year history of Protestant communication with the dead, from Elizabethan England to the mid-nineteenth-century United States. Through prodigious research and careful analysis, he boldly reinterprets Protestantism as a religion...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Seeman, Erik R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.
Colección:Early American studies.
Temas:
Death > United States > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Mourning customs > United States.
Mort > États-Unis > Aspect religieux > Christianisme.
Deuil > Coutumes > États-Unis.
HISTORY > United States > Colonial Period (1600-1775)
HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775)
Death > Religious aspects > Christianity
Mourning customs
United States
USA
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Speaking with the Dead in Early America
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction. Speaking with the Dead
  • Chapter 1. The Transatlantic Science of the Dead
  • Chapter 2. Elegy in Puritan New England
  • Chapter 3. Talking Gravestones and Visions of Heaven
  • Chapter 4. Voices of the Dead in the American Enlightenment
  • Chapter 5. Eighteenth-Century Imaginative Literature
  • Chapter 6. Revelations and New Denominations
  • Chapter 7. Religious Objects, Sacred Space, and the Cult of the Dead
  • Chapter 8. Ghosts, Guardian Angels, and Departed Spirits
  • Conclusion. Continuing Relationships
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments.

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