Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife
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Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife  -     By: Lisa Miller

Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife

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Product Description

"Addresses what and where heaven is, and why the concept endures. Miller discusses the heavenly city, afterlife in the Hebrew Bible, resurrection, and salvation, including a chapter on visionaries; and comments extensively on how heaven is portrayed in pop culture. An entertaining primer,"---Booklist. 358 pages, softcover. HarperPerennial.

Product Information

Title: Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife
By: Lisa Miller
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 368
Vendor: HarperCollins
Publication Date: 2011
Dimensions: 8.00 X 5.31 X 0.828829 (inches)
Weight: 10 ounces
ISBN: 0060554762
ISBN-13: 9780060554767
Stock No: WW554767

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“Wonderful…. A smart and accessible take on the ultimate question: What is Heaven? Lisa’s book is a good place to begin to find an answer.”
— Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Lion

“A rare combination of journalism, memoir, and historical research … this smart yet heartfelt book leads us into the center of one of the greatest conversations of all time. And Lisa Miller is the perfect conversation partner.”
— Stephen Prothero, New York Times bestselling author of American Jesus and Religious Literacy

A groundbreaking history of the hereafter, Heaven by Newsweek reporter and religion editor Lisa Miller draws from both history and popular culture to reveal how past and presage visions of heaven have evolved and how they inspire us to both good and evil.

Author Bio

Lisa Miller is an award-winning journalist and an editor at Newsweek, where she writes regularly about religion, values, culture, and politics. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.

Editorial Reviews

“This fascinating, thoughtful, and challenging study tells us a great deal about what it means to be a human being.” — Karen Armstrong, New York Times bestselling author of A History of God and The Case for God

“Lisa Miller has long been the fairest and most engaging journalist covering religion in America. In Heaven, she has accomplished the impossible: She has written a book about religion that fundamentalists, moderates, liberals, and nonbelievers alike can read with extreme pleasure.” — Sam Harris, New York Times bestselling author of The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation

“Delightful and insightful. . . . This marvelous work is a readable and wonderfully realized study of this ‘constant hope’ that we share. . . . Whether we’re informed by scripture or by popular culture, HEAVEN will delight and edify readers at every level.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“A rare combination of journalism, memoir, and historical research by a self-professed skeptic who nonetheless believes in hope, this smart yet heartfelt book leads us into the center of one of the greatest conversations of all time. And Lisa Miller is the perfect conversation partner.” — Stephen Prothero, New York Times bestselling author of American Jesus and Religious Literacy

“Readers of HEAVEN will more likely than not find their own imaginations enriched, their experiences enhanced, their taste for exploration enlarged, and their impulse to reach out in empathy and hope quickened.” — Martin E. Marty, Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago

“Miller’s whirlwind tour of heaven is an entertaining primer on a most complex subject.” — Booklist

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