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Gary Scott Smith

Heaven in the American Imagination

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Does heaven exist? If so, what is it like? And how does one get in? Throughout history, painters, poets, philosophers, pastors, and many ordinary people have pondered these questions. Perhaps no other topic captures the popular imagination quite like heaven.Gary Scott Smith examines how Americans from the Puritans to the present have imagined heaven. He argues that whether Americans have perceived heaven as reality or fantasy, as God's home or a human invention, as a source of inspiration and comfort or an opiate that distracts from earthly life, or as a place of worship or a perpetual playground has varied largely according to the spirit of… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-983197-5
  • EAN: 9780199831975
  • Produktnummer: 13938970
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 2'170 KB

Über den Autor


Gary Scott Smith is Professor of History at Grove City College, in Pennsylvania. He is the author, most recently, of Faith and the Presidency: From George Washington to George W. Bush.

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