The Rise and Fall of the Afterlife
Subtitle: The 1995 Read-Tuckwell Lectures at the University of Bristol
Publisher: Routledge
Published: November 9, 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780415141475
First sentence: Even though their existence is no longer universally accepted, heaven and hell are still very much alive in Western civilisation Priests and ministers often refer to them (if, admittedly, less to hell), literature uses them as metaphors, and the cinema even occasionally tries to represent them.