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Colleen McDannell

Auteur van Heaven: A History

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Colleen McDannell is Sterling McMurrin Chair of Religious Studies and associate professor of history at the University of Utah. (Bowker Author Biography)

Bevat de naam: Colleen McDonnell

Fotografie: from University of Utah faculty page

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Geboortedatum
1954
Geslacht
female
Nationaliteit
USA
Land (voor op de kaart)
USA
Opleiding
University of Colorado (BA)
University of Denver (MA)
Temple University (PhD)
Beroepen
history professor, University of Utah
Organisaties
University of Utah
Prijzen en onderscheidingen
Sterling M. McMurrin Chair in Religious Studies, University of Utah
Korte biografie
Colleen McDannell, Sterling McMurrin Chair of Religious Studies and associate professor of history at the University of Utah.

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Under the surface of this book is a historical materialist argument that is never fully articulated and because of which it suffers to bring a real understanding of why the concept of heaven changes. Feudal lords want heaven to be feudal. Capitalists want heaven to have work and private property.

Also unexplored are African American, African, and Asian traditions of heaven which I assume must radically be different from the middle class and theological intelligentsia. Also no where was the Slavic or Eastern Orthodox interpretation of heaven or for that matter Tolstoy's The kingdom of heaven is within you.

It is a history of European/American Protestant and Catholic theology so it doesn't really paint a complete picture of Christian heaven when 75% of the world's Christians aren't included.
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galuf84 | Jul 27, 2022 |
American Protestants--especially evangelicals--have traditionally had, and continue to have, a strong material and visual dimension to their religious lives
 
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kijabi1 | Jan 6, 2012 |

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Leden
477
Populariteit
#51,683
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½ 3.5
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2
ISBNs
33
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