Entertaining judgment : the afterlife in popular imagination /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Garrett, Greg
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
1900-2099
Popular culture > Religious aspects.
Future life.
Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century.
Popular culture > United States > History > 21st century.
Culture populaire > Aspect religieux.
Vie future.
Culture populaire > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Culture populaire > États-Unis > Histoire > 21e siècle.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Gaia & Earth Energies.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
RELIGION > Theology.
Future life
Popular culture
Popular culture > Religious aspects
United States
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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