Lucy Bregman

Lucy Bregman received her B.A. from Brown University, her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Divinity School and taught at Temple University’s Religion Department in Philadelphia PA until her retirement in 2019. She taught a course on “Death and Dying” for undergraduates, and mentored graduate students to teach in this area. Her published work includes Beyond Silence and Denial: Death and Dying Reconsidered (Westminster/John Knox,1999), a three-volume edited anthology Religion, Death and Dying (Praeger 2010) and Preaching Death: The Transformation of American Protestant Funeral Sermons (Baylor University,2011) along with other books, edited volumes and essays on death and religion. She has been active in the American Academy of Religion’s “Death, Dying and Beyond” program unit. She enjoys flatwater kayaking.