Entertaining judgment : the afterlife in popular imagination /
A deft analysis that sheds new light on what popular culture can tell us about the startlingly sharp divide between what modern people profess to believe and what they truly hope and expect to find after death--and how they use those stories to help them understand this life.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2015.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Entertaining judgment: how we understand the afterlife
- In between: death and the undead
- Denizens of the afterlife: angels, demons, and the devil
- Heaven: the pearly gates
- Hell: the fiery inferno
- Purgatory: working out our salvation
- The dead and the living
- Literary and cultural works consulted.