Margaret Toscano

Broschiertes Buch

Hell and its Afterlife

Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Herausgeber: Moreira, Isabel

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 436g
• ISBN-13: 9781138265929
• ISBN-10: 1138265926
• Artikelnr.: 57052049