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Abraham's Bosom
abrahams
Abraham’s Bosom
afterlife studies
Ancient Pagans
Author_Margaret Toscano
bosom
Brimstone
Category=QRM
Christ's Descent
Christian eschatology
christs
cultural reception of damnation
Cupid
damned
Damned Souls
dantes
descent
Early Medieval Western Europe
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Eternal Loss
Follow
Franciscan Sermons
Gods Of Chaos
Gregory The Great
historical perspectives on hell
infernal metaphors
inferno
into
LDS
LDS Church
Martin's Cult
medieval theology
North American Evangelicals
Otherworld
Persona
Protestant Hell
Psyche Story
religious punishment
salt
Second Death
soul
Thomas Aquinas
Unbaptized Infants
Virgil's Underworld
Virgil’s Underworld
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781138265929
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The notion of an infernal place of punishment for 'undesired' elements in human culture and human nature has a long history both as religious idea and as cultural metaphor. This book brings together a wide array of scholars who examine hell as an idea within the Christian tradition and its 'afterlife' in historical and contemporary imagination. Leading scholars grapple with the construction and meaning of hell in the past and investigate its modern utility as a means to describe what is perceived as horrific or undesirable in modern culture. While the idea of an infernal region of punishment was largely developed in the context of early Jewish and Christian religious culture, it remains a central belief for some Christians in the modern world. Hell's reception (its 'afterlife') in the modern world has extended hell's meaning beyond the religious realm; hell has become a pervasive image and metaphor in political rhetoric, in popular culture, and in the media. Bringing together scholars from a variety of fields to contribute to a wider understanding of this fascinating and important cultural idea, this book will appeal to readers from historical, religious, literary and cultural perspectives.
Isabel Moreira is Professor of History at the University of Utah. She has a PhD in Ancient History from the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. She specializes in the history and religion of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Her publications include, Dreams, Visions, and Spiritual Authority in Merovingian Gaul (2000), and Heaven's Purge: Purgatory in Late Antiquity (2010). Margaret Toscano is Assistant Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of Utah, where she also received her PhD in Comparative Literature. She specializes in religion, gender, and myth. She also publishes on Mormon theology. She is currently writing a book entitled Making Love with God in the Medieval World: Sex and Identity in Mechthild of Magdeburg and Margery Kempe. In 2007 she published chapters in Rome, Season One: History Makes Television and in Discourses in Mormon Theology: Philosophical and Theological Possibilities.
