TY - BOOK AU - Casey,John TI - After lives: a guide to heaven, hell, and purgatory SN - 9780195092950 (hardback : alk. paper) AV - BL535 .C37 2009 U1 - 202/.3 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Future life KW - History of doctrines N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 ER -