Dr. Lucy Bregman
Professor of Religion (Death & Dying, Religion & Psychology)
B.A., Brown University 1966
Ph.D., University of Chicago Divinity School 1973
Current Research
Dr. Bregman continues to be interested in changing contemporary views of death, dying and bereavement. She works on both the implications for Christian re-thinking of these issues, and on the new patterns of meaning for death in North America, as discovered in spiritual autobiographies.
In response to the need for a textbook for Rel. W343 (now Rel 2006) "Death and Dying" Dr. Bregman edited an anthology "Death and Dying in World Religions"(Pearson Publishing, 2004; 2nd edition Kendall Hunt, 2009) to which many members of the department and graduates of the program contributed.
Publications
Preaching Death: The Transformation of Christian Funeral Sermons. Baylor University Press, 2011.
Religion, Death and Dying (Ed.) 3 volumes. Praeger, 2010.
Death and Dying, Spirituality and Religions, Peter Lang, 2003
Beyond Silence and Denial: Death and Dying Reconsidered, Westminster John Knox, 1999
First Person Mortal (with Sara Thiermann), Paragon House, 1995
Death in the Midst of Life, Baker Book House, 1992
Through the Landscape of Faith, Westminster, 1986
Blackboard Courses
Death and Dying (2006)
Martyrs and Suicides (3005)
Mysticism (4003)
Foundations in Christianity (5501)