Virtually Dead: Religion in the Age of the Internet (Religion in American History blog post)
This past spring, I taught a digital humanities course on American Dead and Undead. The premise of the course was fairly simple: we shouldn't study the dead and undead in isolation from one another. Following the lead of Philippe Ariès, many scholars have argued that Americans have lost a language for talking about death and increasingly have delegated death rites to professional personnel and spaces. If so, have the undead provided us with a new space and vocabulary for p