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.
Temas:
Hell.
Future life > History of doctrines.
Vie future > Histoire des doctrines.
Enfer.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Gaia & Earth Energies
RELIGION / Christianity / General
RELIGION / Theology
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • Inquisitive Christians go to hell
  • The great poets as tour guides
  • A brief detour to heaven
  • Epilogue
  • Bibliography

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