Our last talk this season considers how contemporary popular culture engages with death and remembrance using the familiar motif of the "angel".

Wednesday 15th December, 19:30 - 20:30

Angels abound in today's popular culture - appearing in books, magazine articles, movies, websites and television programmes. In the judaic-Christian tradition (including Victorian cemetery sculpture) angels have been concerned - among other things - with death: they transport souls to the next life, and the archangel weighs the souls of the dead at the day of judgement. But do angels make sense to mourners today? The talk looks at a perhaps surprising place - the Sun newspaper's online tributes for Jade Goody, whose mourners used a rich pallette of angel imagery - to show there is much more to contemporary angelology than self-help and positive living. Intriguigly, they succeed in squaring some circles that often elude both religious and bereavement professionals.

TONY WALTER: is Professor of death studies at the University of Bath, where he teaches postgraduate courses on death and society (www.bath.ac.uk/cdas/education). His books include The Eclipse of Eternity; a sociology of the afterlife (Macmillan), The Mourning for Diana (Berg) and On Bereavement: the culture of grief (Open University Press).

SEASON TICKET: £20

Season Ticket - for all four talks: Victorian Funerals; Seasonal Festivals of Britain; Loss, Memory and War; Angels and Mourning Today)

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Angels & Mourning

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