Heaven in the American imagination / Gary Scott Smith.
Publication details: New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.Description: xii, 339 p. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780199738953 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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- BT846.3 .S65 2011
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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.