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LEADER: 01492cam a2200289 a 4500
001 2010037448
003 DLC
005 20110929082729.0
008 100901s2011 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2010037448
020 $a9780199738953 (hardcover : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aBT846.3$b.S65 2011
082 00 $a236/.240973$222
100 1 $aSmith, Gary Scott,$d1950-
245 10 $aHeaven in the American imagination /$cGary Scott Smith.
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$cc2011.
300 $axii, 339 p. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe Puritans: celebrating the glory of heaven -- Jonathan Edwards and the first great awakening: heaven is a world of love -- The early national era and the second great awakening -- Heaven as home: the Victorians and heaven, 1830-1870 -- Slavery, the Civil War, and heaven -- Heaven in the gilded age: Dwight Moody and the princes of the pulpit -- Heaven in the progressive years: personal growth, service, and reform -- Shifting conceptions of heaven from the roaring twenties to the fabulous fifties -- New currents and old streams, 1960-2000 -- Heaven in a postmodern, anxiety-ridden, entertainment-oriented, therapeutic, happiness-based culture.
650 0 $aHeaven$xChristianity.
650 0 $aHeaven.
650 0 $aFuture life$xChristianity.
650 0 $aFuture life.
651 0 $aUnited States$xReligion.