Casey, John  1939- <br/><br/>
After lives :  a guide to heaven, hell, and purgatory / 
John Casey. 
 - Oxford ;  New York :  Oxford University Press,  2009. 
 - viii, 468 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Dark futures. After lives -- Egypt -- Mesopotamia and Israel -- Greece and Rome -- The Christian beginnings -- Dante : Inferno -- Predestination : Augustine to Calvin and beyond -- The decline of hell -- Purgatory. Rome's happiest inspiration? -- Heaven. Heaven : Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel -- Bodies fleshly and spiritual -- Dante : Paradiso -- Celestial pleasures : Renaissance and Reformation heavens -- Heavenly speculations -- Heaven seen and heard : Swedenborg -- With easy intercourse pass to and fro -- Scoring in heaven. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780195092950 (hardback : alk. paper) 0195092953 (hardback : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009007204 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Future life--History of doctrines.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BL535  / .C37 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>202/.3