Erscheint: August 2011.
Chapter 1: From stasis to movement, from lonliness to love. "Heaven: a History" (1988) in retrospect
Chapter 2: The modernisation of life after death, 1644-1791
Chapter 3: The English heaven. An exploration of "The Pilgrim's Progress" (1678/84)
Chapter 4: The Spanish heaven. Opposition to modernity
Chapter 5: A Swedish heaven. Swedenborg on "Heaven and Hell" (1758)
Appendix: Swedenborg chronology
Chapter 6: A Swedish heaven in European thought. Early readers of Swedenborg
Appendix: Thomas Hartley on Swedenborg's Doctrine of Correspondences (1778)
Chapter 7: American heaven. An exploration of cemeteries, 1740-1850
Index.
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Meeting in Heaven : modernising the Christian afterlife, 1600-2000 by Bernhard Lang. ISBN 9783631620007. Published by Peter Lang in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
