Heaven in the American imagination
By: Gary Scott Smith
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780199738953
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The Puritans: celebrating the glory of heaven; title: Jonathan Edwards and the first great awakening: heaven is a world of love; title: The early national era and the second great awakening; title: Heaven as home: the Victorians and heaven, 1830-1870; title: Slavery, the Civil War, and heaven; title: Heaven in the gilded age: Dwight Moody and the princes of the pulpit; title: Heaven in the progressive years: personal growth, service, and reform; title: Shifting conceptions of heaven from the roaring twenties to the fabulous fifties; title: New currents and old streams, 1960-2000; title: Heaven in a postmodern, anxiety-ridden, entertainment-oriented, therapeutic, happiness-based culture; title: Conclusion.