Diana Walsh Pasulka (Asso Associate Professor of Religious Studies

Gebundenes Buch

Heaven Can Wait

Purgatory in Catholic Devotional and Popular Culture

Beschreibung

After purgatory was proclaimed an official doctrine of the Catholic Church in the thirteenth century, its location became a topic of heated debate and philosophical speculation. Over the centuries, the debate surrounding purgatory has never ended: even today members of post-millennial ''purgatory apostolates'' maintain that purgatory is an actual, physical place.

Autor

Diana Walsh Pasulka earned her B.A. degree from the University of California at Davis, her M.A. from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and her Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Syracuse University. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, and has published on the subject of conceptions of the afterlife and Catholic history. She is the chair of the American Academy of Religion group Death and Dying.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 502g
• ISBN-13: 9780195382020
• ISBN-10: 0195382021
• Artikelnr.: 47866413