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Entertaining Judgment : The Afterlife in Popular Imagination.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (264 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199335916
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Entertaining JudgmentDDC classification:
  • 202/.3
LOC classification:
  • BL65.C8 -- .G38 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Entertaining Judgment: The Afterlife in Popular Imagination -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- ENTERTAINING JUDGMENT -- INTRODUCTION: ENTERTAINING JUDGMENT: How We Understand the Afterlife -- CHAPTER ONE: IN BETWEEN: Death and the Undead -- WHAT IS DEATH, REALLY? -- SPOOKED: GHOSTS AND WHY THEY HAUNT US -- BEAUTIFUL BLOODSUCKERS: MEET THE VAMPIRE -- ALL YOU ZOMBIES: WHY IT'S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD -- CHAPTER TWO: DENIZENS OF THE AFTERLIFE: Angels, Demons, and the Devil -- ANGELS IN ACTION -- ANGELS GONE BAD -- CHAPTER THREE: HEAVEN: The Pearly Gates -- SEEKING HEAVEN -- VISIONS OF HEAVEN -- CHAPTER FOUR: HELL: The Fiery Inferno -- "I'LL SEE YOU IN HELL, WILL MUNNY": HELL AS PUNISHMENT FOR THE WICKED -- CHAPTER FIVE: PURGATORY: Working Out Our Salvation -- PURGATORY AS PURIFYING FLAME -- BIG PURGATORIES, SMALL CHANGES -- OTHER USES OF PURGATORY -- CONCLUSION: The Dead and the Living -- APPENDIX: Literary and Cultural Works Consulted -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE -- CHAPTER TWO -- CHAPTER THREE -- CHAPTER FOUR -- CHAPTER FIVE -- CONCLUSION -- INDEX.
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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Cover -- Entertaining Judgment: The Afterlife in Popular Imagination -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- ENTERTAINING JUDGMENT -- INTRODUCTION: ENTERTAINING JUDGMENT: How We Understand the Afterlife -- CHAPTER ONE: IN BETWEEN: Death and the Undead -- WHAT IS DEATH, REALLY? -- SPOOKED: GHOSTS AND WHY THEY HAUNT US -- BEAUTIFUL BLOODSUCKERS: MEET THE VAMPIRE -- ALL YOU ZOMBIES: WHY IT'S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD -- CHAPTER TWO: DENIZENS OF THE AFTERLIFE: Angels, Demons, and the Devil -- ANGELS IN ACTION -- ANGELS GONE BAD -- CHAPTER THREE: HEAVEN: The Pearly Gates -- SEEKING HEAVEN -- VISIONS OF HEAVEN -- CHAPTER FOUR: HELL: The Fiery Inferno -- "I'LL SEE YOU IN HELL, WILL MUNNY": HELL AS PUNISHMENT FOR THE WICKED -- CHAPTER FIVE: PURGATORY: Working Out Our Salvation -- PURGATORY AS PURIFYING FLAME -- BIG PURGATORIES, SMALL CHANGES -- OTHER USES OF PURGATORY -- CONCLUSION: The Dead and the Living -- APPENDIX: Literary and Cultural Works Consulted -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE -- CHAPTER TWO -- CHAPTER THREE -- CHAPTER FOUR -- CHAPTER FIVE -- CONCLUSION -- INDEX.

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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