Hell and its afterlife : historical and contemporary perspectives / edited by Isabel Moreira and Margaret Toscano.
Contributor(s): Moreira, Isabel
| Toscano, Margaret Merrill
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TextPublisher: Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: xvi, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780754667292 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0754667294 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9781409417514 (ebook); 1409417514 (ebook)Subject(s): Hell -- Christianity -- History of doctrines | HellDDC classification: 202/.3 LOC classification: BT836.3 | .M65 2010Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 films / Sharon Lee Swenson -- Hell in our time : Dantean descent and the twenty-first century "war on terror" / Rachel Falconer.