Speaking with the dead in early America [electronic resource] / Erik R. Seeman

Author:: Seeman, Erik R.
Published:: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
Edition:: 1st edition.
Physical Description:: 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Early American studies

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Summary:

"This book is a 300-year social history of Protestant communication with the dead in early America (to the mid-nineteenth century); the people in the book are a wide variety of people. This book is also a history of women in religion"--

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Protestantism—Social aspects—United States—History—17th century
Women and religion—United States—History—17th century
Spiritualism—United States—History—17th century
Women and spiritualism—United States—History—17th century
Death—United States—Religious aspects—History

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ISBN:

9780812251531 (hardcover)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-319) and index.

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