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Entertaining judgment : the afterlife in popular imagination / Greg Garrett.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780199335916
  • 0199335915
  • 9780199335923
  • 0199335923
  • 9781322236728
  • 1322236720
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Entertaining judgmentDDC classification:
  • 202/.3 23
LOC classification:
  • BL65.C8 G38 2015eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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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.
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)860231

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Print version record.

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.

English.