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The Rise and Fall of the Afterlife: The 1995 Read-Tuckwell Lectures at the University of Bristol
The Rise and Fall of the Afterlife The 1995 ReadTuckwell Lectures at the University of Bristol
Author: Jan N. Bremmer
The afterlife is still very much alive in Western civilization, even though the truth of its existence is no longer universally accepted. Surprisingly, however, heaven, hell and the immortal soul were all ideas which arrived relatively late in the ancient world. Originally Greece and Israel-the cultures that gave us Christianity-had only the vag...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780415141475
ISBN-10: 0415141478
Publication Date: 11/9/2001
Pages: 208
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Publisher: Routledge
Book Type: Library Binding
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