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Paradise and hell in Islamic traditions
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ISBN: 9780521506373 9780521738156 9781139014847 0521738156 0521506379 1139014846 1316410676 1316413071 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The Muslim afterworld, with its imagery rich in sensual promises, has shaped Western perceptions of Islam for centuries. However, to date, no single study has done justice to the full spectrum of traditions of thinking about the topic in Islamic history. The Muslim hell, in particular, remains a little studied subject. This book, which is based on a wide array of carefully selected Arabic and Persian texts, covers not only the theological and exegetical but also the philosophical, mystical, topographical, architectural and ritual aspects of the Muslim belief in paradise and hell, in both the Sunni and the Shiʿi world. By examining a broad range of sources related to the afterlife, Christian Lange shows that Muslim religious literature, against transcendentalist assumptions to the contrary, often pictures the boundary between this world and the otherworld as being remarkably thin, or even permeable.


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The Garden and the Fire
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ISBN: 0231140843 0231140851 0231511833 9780231140843 9780231511834 Year: 2008 Publisher: New York, NY

Who knows? : a study of religious consciousness
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ISBN: 9786612071973 1282071971 025310968X 9780253109682 9780253341983 0253341981 9780253215741 0253215749 9781282071971 0253341981 0253215749 6612071974 Year: 2003 Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press,

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Is there really a God, and if so, what is God actually like? Is there an afterlife, and if so, is there such a thing as eternal punishment for unrepentant sinners, as many orthodox Christians and Muslims believe? And is it really true that our unconscious minds are connected to a higher spiritual reality, and if so, could this higher spiritual reality be the very same thing that religionists call ""God""? In his latest book, Raymond M. Smullyan invites the reader to explore some beautiful and some horr


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Greek heroes in and out of Hades
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ISBN: 1282134019 9786613806598 0739144995 9780739144992 9780739144978 0739144979 073919285X 9781282134010 6613806595 Year: 2012 Publisher: Lanham

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Greek Heroes in and out of Hades is a study on heroism and mortality from Homer to Plato. Through systematic readings of a wide range of ancient Greek texts, Stamatia Dova offers innovative hermeneutic approaches to heroic character and a comprehensive overview of the theme of descent to the underworld in the Iliad and the Odyssey, Bacchylides 5, Plato's


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Locating hell in Islamic traditions
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ISBN: 9789004301214 9789004301368 9004301364 9004301216 Year: 2015 Volume: 119 Publisher: Brill

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Islam is often seen as a religious tradition in which hell does not play a particularly prominent role. This volume challenges this hackneyed view. Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions is the first book-length analytic study of the Muslim hell. It maps out a broad spectrum of Islamic attitudes toward hell, from the Quranic vision(s) of hell to the pious cultivation of the fear of the afterlife, theological speculations, metaphorical and psychological understandings, and the modern transformations of hell. Contributors: Frederick Colby, Daniel de Smet, Christiane Gruber, Jon Hoover, Mohammad Hassan Khalil, Christian Lange, Christopher Melchert, Simon O’Meara, Samuela Pagani, Tommaso Tesei, Roberto Tottoli, Wim Raven, and Richard van Leeuwen.


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Hell and its afterlife : historical and contemporary perspectives.
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ISBN: 9780754667292 0754667294 9781409417514 1409417514 9781315586540 9781317122692 9781317122708 9781138265929 Year: 2010 Publisher: Farnham Ashgate

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The notion of an infernal place of punishment for ""undesired"" elements in human culture and human nature has a long history both as religious idea and as cultural metaphor. This book brings together a wide array of scholars who examine Hell as an idea within the Christian tradition and its ""afterlife"" in historical and contemporary imagination. Leading scholars grapple with the construction and meaning of hell in the past and investigate its modern utility as a means to describe what is perceived as horrific or undesirable in modern culture.


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Waarom de hel naar zwavel stinkt. Mythologie en geologie van de onderwereld
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ISBN: 9789045018768 Year: 2011 Publisher: Amsterdam Atlas

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De aarde is de onderwereld, het dodenrijk, de hel, in bijna alle culturen van de wereld. In het aardedonker worden wij bang en denken aan de dood. En toch zit er zoveel moois in de ondergrond: glinsterende ertsen en metalen, prachtige gele zwavelkorsten, meterslange vlijmscherpe gipskristallen, druipsteengrotten, tere schelpjes uit het begin van de evolutie en reusachtige botten van uitgestorven monsters. Salomon Kroonenberg doet met hamer en kompas geologisch veldwerk in de hel, in het spoor van de Bijbel, Homerus, Vergilius, Dante, Da Vinci, Descartes, Jules Verne en de moderne wetenschap, in elk hoofdstuk weer een stukje dieper. Hij laat ons zien dat de aarde haar eigen geschiedenisboek is. Zo leren we dat we de ondergrond niet langer moeten zien als een black box om tunnels in te graven, als een supermarkt voor grondstoffen, als een tapijt om afval onder te vegen, of als laatste rustplaats voor de doden, maar veeleer als een onvervangbaar archief, en als een levend ecoxysteem waarvan we nog maar nauwelijks de rijkdom hebben kunnen peilen.

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