Afterlife: A History of Life after Death
List of Plates -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- Chapter One -- The spirits of the dead -- Rewards and punishments -- Go directly to Paradise -- Paradise not quite regained yet -- Chapter Two -- Dante's limbo -- The Limbo of the Infants -- The Limbo of the Fathers -- 'He descended into he...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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London
I.B.Tauris
2016
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| In: | Year: 2016 |
| Further subjects: | B
Immortality (Philosophy)
B Electronic books |
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Volltext (Publisher) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: C Almond, Philip: Afterlife : A History of Life after Death. - London : I.B.Tauris,c2016. - 9781784534967 |
| Summary: | List of Plates -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue -- Chapter One -- The spirits of the dead -- Rewards and punishments -- Go directly to Paradise -- Paradise not quite regained yet -- Chapter Two -- Dante's limbo -- The Limbo of the Infants -- The Limbo of the Fathers -- 'He descended into hell' -- Chapter Three -- Composite creatures -- The origin of the soul -- Time and eternity -- Resurrected bodies -- Flesh and bones -- Sharks and cannibals -- Apocalypse soon -- Chapter Four -- 'Blessed be God' -- Particular judgements -- A fiery purging -- Praying for the dead -- Craving your indulgence Chapter Five -- The dying soul -- 'To sleep, perchance to dream?' -- Radical mortalists -- A sage from Malmesbury, a Leveller and a poet -- 'Flying like an eagle in the air' -- Variations on an Arabian theme -- The resurrection of John Locke -- The triumph of soul-denying -- Chapter Six -- The finality of death -- Justified and predestined -- Purgatory revisited -- Hell's torments -- Gnawing worms, unquenchable fires and abominable fantasies -- Annihilationists and torments temporary -- Universalists and torments reformative -- Chapter Seven -- The early modern heaven The visions of Emanuel Swedenborg -- The Gates Ajar -- Technologies of the afterlife -- Twentieth-century variations, new themes and old -- From here to eternity -- Utopias new and apocalypses old -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Plates Section -- Index |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (290 p) |
| ISBN: | 978-1-78453-496-7 |
