

Heaven
Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife
Author: Lisa Miller
Narrator: Linda Emond
Unabridged: 9 hr 44 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Published: 03/23/2010
Categories: Nonfiction, Religion, Spirituality, Theology
Synopsis
Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians and scholars have dissected these questions—and others like them—for thousands of years, yet in today’s world, most people leave them pretty well alone, content to live with a shallow or incomplete sense of what they do believe. Award-winning journalist Lisa Miller dissects these ancient theologies and their different ideas regarding an afterlife by looking at what the beliefs are, how they have impacted one another, and also how they have reacted to the needs and lifestyles of their followers through the ages. By looking at profiles of real people and history, and analyzing conversations with scholars, Heaven forces people to grapple with their beliefs about heaven. It holds up a mirror to allow Americans to gauge how their ideas about heaven measure up to traditional and popular ideas throughout history in an accessible, palatable way.