Margaret Toscano

Hell and its Afterlife (eBook, ePUB)

Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Redaktion: Moreira, Isabel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317122708
• Artikelnr.: 49351614

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Holding Ajar the Gates of Hell
Isabel Moreira
Margaret Toscano; Part I The Tradition of Hell in the Old World; Chapter 1 Love is Hell: Torment
Sex
and Redemption in the Cupid and Psyche Myth
Margaret Toscano; Chapter 2 Early Visions of Hell as a Place of Education and Conversion
Jeffrey A. Trumbower; Chapter 3 Plucking Sinners Out of Hell: Saint Martin of Tours' Resurrection Miracle
Isabel Moreira; Chapter 4 Named Others and Named Places: Stigmatization in the Early Medieval Afterlife
Alan E. Bernstein; Chapter 5 A Franciscan Kind of Hell
Megan C. Armstrong; Chapter 6 1The editors would like to thank The Journal of Ecclesiastical History for permission to publish this chapter which was extended for the journal under the title "The Reformation of Hell? Protestant and Catholic Infernalisms in England
c.1560-1640
" The Journal of Ecclesiastical History
Volume 61
Issue 02
April 2010
pp. 279-98 by Peter Marshall.
Peter Marshall; Part II The Reception of Hell in Modern Times and Contemporary Dialogue; Chapter 7 Devils Conquering and Conquered: Changing Visions of Hell in Spanish America
Fernando Cervantes; Chapter 8 Hell with Purgatory and Two Limbos: The Geography and Theology of the Underworld
Henry Ansgar Kelly; Chapter 9 Hell Yes! Hell No! Evangelical Debates on Eternal Punishment
John Sanders; Chapter 10 Turning the Devils Out of Doors: Mormonism and the Concept of Hell
Brian D. Birch; Chapter 11 James Joyce and the (Modernist) Hellmouth
Vincent J. Cheng; Chapter 12 Sin City: Urban Damnation in Dante
Blake
T.S. Eliot
and James Thomson
Disa Gambera; Chapter 13 1I would like to thank the other Part Icipants in the "Hell and Its Afterlife" conference for their comments on the original oral version of this paper
Part Icularly Walid Saleh
Jennifer Fraser
Rachel Falconer
and Alan Bernstein
and
from the University of Nebraska
Kim Vorthmann.
Charles W. King; Chapter 14 Guardian Demons in Hellboy: Hybridity in Contemporary America