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 in which the dead played a central role.

List of contents

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

About the author

Erik R. Seeman

Product details

• Authors: Erik R Seeman, Erik R. Seeman
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9780812225181
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2518-1
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Early American Studies
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous