Entertaining judgment : the afterlife in popular imagination / Greg Garrett.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780199335916
- 0199335915
- 9780199335923
- 0199335923
- 9781322236728
- 1322236720
- 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
- 1900-2099
- 202/.3 23
- BL65.C8 G38 2015eb
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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.
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