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Heaven in the American imagination / Gary Scott Smith.
LIBRA BT846.3 .S65 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Gary Scott, 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Heaven--Christianity.
- Heaven.
- Future life--Christianity.
- Future life.
- United States--Religion.
- United States.
- Religion.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 339 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The Puritans: celebrating the glory of heaven
- Jonathan Edwards and the first great awakening: heaven is a world of love
- The early national era and the second great awakening
- Heaven as home: the Victorians and heaven, 1830-1870
- Slavery, the Civil War, and heaven
- Heaven in the gilded age: Dwight Moody and the princes of the pulpit
- Heaven in the progressive years: personal growth, service, and reform
- Shifting conceptions of heaven from the roaring twenties to the fabulous fifties
- New currents and old streams, 1960-2000
- Heaven in a postmodern, anxiety-ridden, entertainment-oriented, therapeutic, happiness-based culture
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199738953
- 0199738955
- OCLC:
- 663102410
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