Sunday, January 5, 8:30–10:30 a.m.

American Society of Church History Session 29

Death and Afterlife in American Religious Culture

Palmer House, Burnham Room 5

Chair: Catherine A. Brekus, University of Chicago

Papers: The Songs of Death
Clayton McNearney, Marshall University

Spirits on Stage: Death and the Afterlife in American Spiritualist Theater
Brandon Johnson, University of Chicago

"Now we are names that once were young": Death, the Afterlife, and American Soldiers of the First World War
Jonathan Ebel, University of Chicago

Comment: Stephen Prothero, Boston University

   

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