After lives : a guide to heaven, hell, and purgatory /
"One of the most profound, deeply affecting questions we face as human beings is the matter of our mortality - and its connection to immorality. Ancient animist ghost cultures, Egyptian mummification, late Jewish hopes of resurrection, Christian eternal salvation, Muslim belief in hell and para...
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Oxford ; New York :
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2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Dark futures. After lives
- Egypt
- Mesopotamia and Israel
- Greece and Rome
- The Christian beginnings
- Dante : Inferno
- Predestination : Augustine to Calvin and beyond
- The decline of hell
- Purgatory. Rome's happiest inspiration?
- Heaven. Heaven : Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel
- Bodies fleshly and spiritual
- Dante : Paradiso
- Celestial pleasures : Renaissance and Reformation heavens
- Heavenly speculations
- Heaven seen and heard : Swedenborg
- With easy intercourse pass to and fro
- Scoring in heaven.