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Hell and damnation : a sinner's guide to eternal torment /

"In Hell and Damnation, bestselling author Marq de Villiers takes readers on a journey into the strange richness of the human imaginings of hell, deep into time and across many faiths, back into early Egypt and the 5,000-year-old Mesopotamian epic of Gilgamesh. This urbane, funny, and deeply re...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: De Villiers, Marq (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Regina, Saskatchewan : University of Regina Press, 2019.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Intro -- Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- who invented hell, and for god's sake why? -- Hell-free zones -- Where the hell is it? -- Hell's executive suite -- Hell's unruly boardroom fracas -- Can there really be romance in the heart of hell? -- Once you're in, what's it like? A survey of A-list hells -- Eternal torment: who does what to whom, and why -- The peculiar physics of hell: How long is forever? -- The Watchers and the origin of hell -- Hell's earliest tourists -- Some Buddhists go to hell for the damnedest reasons -- Hellish travellers in classical antiquity 
505 8 |a Inquisitive Christians go to hell -- The great poets as tour guides -- A brief detour to heaven -- Epilogue -- Bibliography 
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