Jeanne Kormina, Director of the Yerevan Center for International Education (YCIE), and Jon Bialecki, professor of anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, explore the social, political, and spiritual lives of the dead in two new essays published in Comparative Studies in Society and History (CSSH), 67(2).
- Jeanne Kormina – Popular Theopolitics and the Last Russian Tsar’s Intangible Remains 67(2): 303-329
- Jon Bialecki – The Mormon Archive’s First Ten Thousand Years: Infrastructure, Materiality, Ontology and Resurrection in Religious Transhumanism 67(2): 330-348
In conjunction with this issue, CSSH invited both authors to join a conversation—After Life—on the enduring presence of the dead, transhumanist visions, and the theological infrastructures that give shape to bodies no longer alive. From beatification and posthumous baptism to cryogenic preservation, their work asks what it means to manage, venerate, or technologize the dead.
Read the full discussion at CSSH website.
