Heaven in the American imagination /
Smith, Gary Scott, 1950-
Heaven in the American imagination / Gary Scott Smith. - New York : Oxford University Press, c2011. - xii, 339 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780199738953 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2010037448
Heaven--Christianity.
Heaven.
Future life--Christianity.
Future life.
United States--Religion.
BT846.3 / .S65 2011
236/.240973
Heaven in the American imagination / Gary Scott Smith. - New York : Oxford University Press, c2011. - xii, 339 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780199738953 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2010037448
Heaven--Christianity.
Heaven.
Future life--Christianity.
Future life.
United States--Religion.
BT846.3 / .S65 2011
236/.240973