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" Heaven in the American imagination / "
Gary Scott Smith
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BL
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711727
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b533916
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| Main Entry
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Smith, Gary Scott,1950-
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Heaven in the American imagination /\ Gary Scott Smith
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New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2011
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1 online resource (xii, 339 pages)
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0199830703 (electronic bk.)
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: 9780199830701 (electronic bk.)
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0199738955
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9780199738953
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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
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Gary Scott Smith poses two major questions: How have Americans viewed heaven? And how have they believed people get there? He argues that Americans in all periods have agreed about some aspects of heavenly life, but that the predominant conception of heaven has varied from era to era
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Future life-- Christianity.
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Future life.
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Heaven-- Christianity.
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Heaven.
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United States, Religion.
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BT846.3.S65 2011eb
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Ohio Library and Information Network.
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