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Afterlife : a history of life after death / Philip C. Almond.

Afterlife : a history of life after death / Philip C. Almond.
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ISBN 9781784534967 (hardback)
Name Almond, Philip C. author.
Title Afterlife : a history of life after death / Philip C. Almond.
Published London : I.B.Tauris, 2016.
©2016
Description xii, 236 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 23 cm.
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary For in that sleep of death what dreams may come? The end of life has never meant the extinction of hope. People perpetually have yearned for, and often been terrified by, continuance beyond the horizon of mortality. Ranging across time and space, Philip Almond here takes his readers on a remarkable journey to worlds both of torment and delight. He travels to the banks of the Styx, where Charon the grizzled boatman ferries a departing spirit across the river only if a gold obol is first placed for payment on the tongue of its corpse. He transports us to the legendary Isles of the Blessed, walks the hallowed ground of the Elysian Fields and plumbs the murky depths of Tartarus, primordial dungeon of the Titans. The pitiable souls of the damned are seen to clog the soot-filled caverns of Lucifer even as the elect ascend to Paradise.
Subjects Future life
Immortality (Philosophy)
Future life -- Christianity -- History of doctrines
Future life -- History of doctrines
Future life -- Christianity
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