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Colleen McDannell

Auteur de Heaven: A History

11+ oeuvres 478 utilisateurs 2 critiques

A propos de l'auteur

Colleen McDannell is Sterling McMurrin Chair of Religious Studies and associate professor of history at the University of Utah. (Bowker Author Biography)

Comprend les noms: Colleen McDonnell

Crédit image: from University of Utah faculty page

Œuvres de Colleen McDannell

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Partage des connaissances

Date de naissance
1954
Sexe
female
Nationalité
USA
Pays (pour la carte)
USA
Études
University of Colorado (BA)
University of Denver (MA)
Temple University (PhD)
Professions
history professor, University of Utah
Organisations
University of Utah
Prix et distinctions
Sterling M. McMurrin Chair in Religious Studies, University of Utah
Courte biographie
Colleen McDannell, Sterling McMurrin Chair of Religious Studies and associate professor of history at the University of Utah.

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Critiques

Under the surface of this book is a historical materialist argument that is never fully articulated and because of which it suffers to bring a real understanding of why the concept of heaven changes. Feudal lords want heaven to be feudal. Capitalists want heaven to have work and private property.

Also unexplored are African American, African, and Asian traditions of heaven which I assume must radically be different from the middle class and theological intelligentsia. Also no where was the Slavic or Eastern Orthodox interpretation of heaven or for that matter Tolstoy's The kingdom of heaven is within you.

It is a history of European/American Protestant and Catholic theology so it doesn't really paint a complete picture of Christian heaven when 75% of the world's Christians aren't included.
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Signalé
galuf84 | Jul 27, 2022 |
American Protestants--especially evangelicals--have traditionally had, and continue to have, a strong material and visual dimension to their religious lives
 
Signalé
kijabi1 | Jan 6, 2012 |

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Œuvres
11
Aussi par
10
Membres
478
Popularité
#51,587
Évaluation
½ 3.5
Critiques
2
ISBN
33
Langues
1

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