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Heaven - Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife (Paperback, Harper Perennial Ed.)
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Heaven - Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife (Paperback, Harper Perennial Ed.)
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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.
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