Bourbon Fudge and Trappist Caskets
This past semester for me focused inordinately on death. I taught a course called “War in the American Memory” and covered the Holocaust in World Civilizations. And then—even though commencement was...
View ArticleDying the Modern Death
Welcome to this fourth installment of Death Wednesday here at the Anxious Bench. In my last post I described the nostalgic appeal of Trappist caskets and old-time burial practices at the bucolic Abbey...
View ArticleThe 1940s and America’s Proto-New Age
The decade of the 1940s represents a profoundly underappreciated era in American history, and that is especially true in matters of religion. The period is of course dominated by the events of the...
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