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

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Garrett, Greg

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2015Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780199335916
0199335915
9780199335923
0199335923
9781322236728
1322236720

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Entertaining judgmentDDC classification:

202/.3 23

LOC classification:

BL65.C8 G38 2015eb

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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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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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