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Hell and its afterlife : historical and contemporary perspectives

Title
Hell and its afterlife : historical and contemporary perspectives / edited by Isabel Moreira and Margaret Toscano.
Author
Moreira, Isabel.
Publication
Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2010.

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Additional Authors
Toscano, Margaret Merrill, 1949-
Description
xvi, 266 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-261) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Holding ajar the gates of hell / Isabel Moreira and Margaret Toscano -- Pt. I. The tradition of hell in the old world. Love is hell : torment, sex, and redemption in the Cupid and Psyche myth / Margaret Toscano -- Early visions of hell as a place of education and conversion / Jeffrey A. Trumbower -- Plucking sinners out of hell : Saint Martin of Tours' resurrection miracle / Isabel Moreira -- Named others and named places : stigmatization in the early medieval afterlife / Alan E. Bernstein -- A Franciscan kind of hell / Megan C. Armstrong -- Catholic and Protestant hells in later Reformation England / Peter Marshall -- Pt. II. The reception of hell in modern times and contemporary dialogue. Devils conquering and conquered : changing visions of hell in Spanish America / Fernando Cervantes -- Hell with purgatory and two limbos : the geography and theology of the underworld / Henry Ansgar Kelly -- Hell yes! Hell no! : evangelical debates on eternal punishment / John Sanders -- Turning the devils out of doors : Mormonism and the concept of hell / Brian D. Birch -- James Joyce and the (modernist) hellmouth / Vincent J. Cheng -- Sin city : urban damnation in Dante, Blake, T.S. Eliot, and James Thomson / Disa Gambera -- What if it's just good business? : hell, business models, and the dilution of justice in Mike Carey's Lucifer / Charles W. King -- Guardian demons in Hellboy : hybridity in contemporary American horror filsm / Sharon Lee Swenson -- Hell in our time : Dantean descent and the twenty-first century "war on terror" / Rachel Falconer.
Call Number
JFE 12-83
ISBN
  • 9780754667292 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0754667294 (hbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2010028978
OCLC
647773620
Author
Moreira, Isabel.
Title
Hell and its afterlife : historical and contemporary perspectives / edited by Isabel Moreira and Margaret Toscano.
Imprint
Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2010.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-261) and index.
Added Author
Toscano, Margaret Merrill, 1949-
Research Call Number
JFE 12-83
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