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Hell and damnation : a sinner's guide to eternal torment / Marq de Villiers.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Regina, Saskatchewan : University of Regina Press, 2019Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 0889775850
  • 9780889775862
  • 0889775869
  • 9780889775855
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:De Villiers, Marq, author.: Hell and damnation.:; Print version:: Hell and damnation.DDC classification:
  • 202/.3 23
LOC classification:
  • BL545
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • cci1icc
  • coll13
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Contents:
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
Summary: "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 researched guide ventures well beyond the Nine Circles of Dante's Hell and the many medieval Christian visions into the hellish descriptions in Islam, Buddhism, Jewish legend, Japanese traditions, and more."-- Provided by publisher.
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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)2033149

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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 researched guide ventures well beyond the Nine Circles of Dante's Hell and the many medieval Christian visions into the hellish descriptions in Islam, Buddhism, Jewish legend, Japanese traditions, and more."-- Provided by publisher.

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