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After Lives : A Guide to Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory

ISBN: 9780195092950 | 0195092953
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 11/4/2009

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
One of the most profound, deeply affecting questions we face as human beings is the matter of our mortality--and its connection to immorality. Ancient animist ghost cultures, Egyptian mummification, late Jewish hopes of resurrection, Christian eternal salvation, Muslim belief in hell and paradise all spring from a remarkably consistent impulse to tether a triumph over death to our conduct in life. In After Lives, British scholar John Casey provides a rich historical and philosophical exploration of the world beyond, from the ancient Egyptians t... MORE
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Acknowlegmentsp. ix
Prologue: Stephen Dedalus's Hellp. 1
Dark Futures
After Livesp. 13
Egyptp. 23
Mesopotamia and Israelp. 43
Greece and Romep. 65
The Christian Beginningsp. 103
Dante: Infernop. 147
Predestination: Augustine to Calvin and Beyondp. 167
The Decline of Hellp. 193
Purgatory
Rome's Happiest Inspiration?p. 225
Heaven
Heaven: Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israelp. 245
Bodies Fleshly and Spiritualp. 269
Dante: Paradisop. 281
Celestial Pleasures: Renaissance and Reformation Heavensp. 293
Heavenly Speculationsp. 321
Heaven Seen and Heard: Swedenborgp. 337
With Easy Intercourse Pass To and Frop. 357
Scoring in Heavenp. 381
Epiloguep. 401
Notesp. 405
Bibliographyp. 441
Indexp. 452
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John Casey is a Fellow of Caius College, Cambridge University. He is the author of such books as Pagan Virtue, Morality and Moral Reasoning and The Language of Criticism.

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