Description: Further DetailsTitle: HeavenCondition: NewSubtitle: Our Enduring Fascination with the AfterlifeISBN-10: 0060554762EAN: 9780060554767ISBN: 9780060554767Publisher: HarperPerennialFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 04/15/2011Description: Many people say they believe in heaven, but very few of them are able to articulate anything specific about their belief, leaving only questions. Is heaven a real place? Is it a city or a garden or both? Can you keep your body there? If so, can you eat, drink, make love? Are you recognizable as yourself in heaven? Do your relationships continue there? Or is heaven something else? A radical idea? A disembodied, unconscious existence? A sense of progression toward perfect understanding, justice, beauty, truth? Jewish, Christian, and Muslim theologians and scholars have dissected these questions - and others like them - for thousands of years, yet in today's world, most people leave them pretty well alone, content to live with a shallow or incomplete sense of what they do believe. Lisa Miller dissects these ancient theologies and their different ideas regarding an afterlife by looking at what the beliefs are, how they have impacted one another, and also how they have reacted to the needs and lifestyles of their followers through the ages.By looking at profiles of real people and history, and analyzing conversations with scholars, "Heaven" forces people to grapple with their beliefs about heaven. It holds up a mirror to allow Americans to gauge how their ideas about heaven measure up to traditional and popular ideas throughout history in an accessible, palatable way.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 203mmItem Length: 135mmItem Width: 21mmItem Weight: 290gAuthor: Lisa MillerGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Year: 2011 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Heaven
Title: Heaven
Subtitle: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife
ISBN-10: 0060554762
EAN: 9780060554767
ISBN: 9780060554767
Release Date: 04/15/2011
Release Year: 2011
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Heaven : Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife
Number of Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2011
Topic: Christian Theology / Eschatology, Popular Culture, General, History
Genre: Religion, Social Science
Item Weight: 9.9 Oz
Item Length: 8 in
Author: Lisa Miller
Item Width: 5.4 in
Format: Trade Paperback
