TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Gary Scott
TI  - Heaven in the American imagination
SN  - 9780199738953 (hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - BT846.3 .S65 2011
U1  - 236/.240973 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Heaven
KW  - Christianity
KW  - Future life
KW  - United States
KW  - Religion
N1  - 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
ER  -