|
Books > History > American history
|
Buy Now
Speaking with the Dead in Early America (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R2,247
Discovery Miles 22 470
You Save: R336
(13%)
|
|
|
Speaking with the Dead in Early America (Hardcover)
Series: Early American Studies
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
In late medieval Catholicism, mourners employed an array of
practices to maintain connection with the deceased-most crucially,
the belief in purgatory, a middle place between heaven and hell
where souls could be helped by the actions of the living. In the
early sixteenth century, the Reformation abolished purgatory, as
its leaders did not want attention to the dead diminishing people's
devotion to God. But while the Reformation was supposed to end
communication between the living and dead, it turns out the result
was in fact more complicated than historians have realized. In the
three centuries after the Reformation, Protestants imagined
continuing relationships with the dead, and the desire for these
relations came to form an important-and since neglected-aspect of
Protestant belief and practice. In Speaking with the Dead in Early
America, historian Erik R. Seeman undertakes a 300-year history of
Protestant communication with the dead. Seeman chronicles the story
of Protestants' relationships with the deceased from Elizabethan
England to puritan New England and then on through the American
Enlightenment into the middle of the nineteenth century with the
explosion of interest in Spiritualism. He brings together a wide
range of sources to uncover the beliefs and practices of both
ordinary people, especially women, and religious leaders. This
prodigious research reveals how sermons, elegies, and epitaphs
portrayed the dead as speaking or being spoken to, how ghost
stories and Gothic fiction depicted a permeable boundary between
this world and the next, and how parlor songs and funeral hymns
encouraged singers to imagine communication with the dead. Speaking
with the Dead in Early America thus boldly reinterprets
Protestantism as a religion in which the dead played a central
role.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
