By Margaret Toscano,Dr Moreira Isabel

ISBN-10: 0754667294

ISBN-13: 9780754667292

ISBN-10: 1138265926

ISBN-13: 9781138265929

The concept of an infernal position of punishment for 'undesired' parts in human tradition and human nature has a protracted background either as spiritual concept and as cultural metaphor. This e-book brings jointly a big selection of students who learn hell as an concept in the Christian culture and its 'afterlife' in historic and modern mind's eye. top students grapple with the development and which means of hell some time past and examine its sleek application as a way to explain what's perceived as terrible or bad in sleek tradition. whereas the assumption of an infernal sector of punishment used to be mostly built within the context of early Jewish and Christian spiritual tradition, it is still a valuable trust for a few Christians within the sleek global. Hell's reception (its 'afterlife') within the glossy global has prolonged hell's which means past the non secular realm; hell has develop into a pervasive snapshot and metaphor in political rhetoric, in pop culture, and within the media.

Bringing jointly students from various fields to give a contribution to a much wider realizing of this interesting and critical cultural notion, this publication will attract readers from old, spiritual, literary and cultural perspectives.

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