TY - BOOK AU - Garrett,Greg TI - Entertaining judgment: the afterlife in popular imagination SN - 9780199335916 AV - BL65.C8 G38 2015eb U1 - 202/.3 23 PY - 2015/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Popular culture KW - Religious aspects KW - Future life KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - 21st century KW - Culture populaire KW - Aspect religieux KW - Vie future KW - États-Unis KW - Histoire KW - 20e siècle KW - 21e siècle KW - BODY, MIND & SPIRIT KW - Gaia & Earth Energies KW - bisacsh KW - RELIGION KW - Christianity KW - General KW - Theology KW - fast N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=860231 ER -