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 in which the dead played a central role.
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 in which the dead played a central role.
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
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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