Immagine dell'autore.

Colleen McDannell

Autore di Heaven: A History

11+ opere 478 membri 2 recensioni

Sull'Autore

Colleen McDannell is Sterling McMurrin Chair of Religious Studies and associate professor of history at the University of Utah. (Bowker Author Biography)

Comprende il nome: Colleen McDonnell

Fonte dell'immagine: from University of Utah faculty page

Opere di Colleen McDannell

Opere correlate

The New York Irish (1996) — Collaboratore — 36 copie
Mormon Studies Review, Volume 2 (2015) (2015) — Collaboratore — 3 copie
Mormon Studies Review, Volume 6 (2019) (2019) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
The Routledge handbook of Mormonism and gender (2020) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
The Palgrave Handbook of Global Mormonism (2020) — Collaboratore — 2 copie
Sunstone - Vol. 19:2, Issue 102, June 1996 (1996) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Sunstone - Vol. 20:1, Issue 105, April 1997 (1997) — Collaboratore — 1 copia
Sunstone - Issue 129, October 2003 (2003) — Collaboratore — 1 copia

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Informazioni generali

Data di nascita
1954
Sesso
female
Nazionalità
USA
Nazione (per mappa)
USA
Istruzione
University of Colorado (BA)
University of Denver (MA)
Temple University (PhD)
Attività lavorative
history professor, University of Utah
Organizzazioni
University of Utah
Premi e riconoscimenti
Sterling M. McMurrin Chair in Religious Studies, University of Utah
Breve biografia
Colleen McDannell, Sterling McMurrin Chair of Religious Studies and associate professor of history at the University of Utah.

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Recensioni

Under the surface of this book is a historical materialist argument that is never fully articulated and because of which it suffers to bring a real understanding of why the concept of heaven changes. Feudal lords want heaven to be feudal. Capitalists want heaven to have work and private property.

Also unexplored are African American, African, and Asian traditions of heaven which I assume must radically be different from the middle class and theological intelligentsia. Also no where was the Slavic or Eastern Orthodox interpretation of heaven or for that matter Tolstoy's The kingdom of heaven is within you.

It is a history of European/American Protestant and Catholic theology so it doesn't really paint a complete picture of Christian heaven when 75% of the world's Christians aren't included.
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galuf84 | Jul 27, 2022 |
American Protestants--especially evangelicals--have traditionally had, and continue to have, a strong material and visual dimension to their religious lives
 
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kijabi1 | Jan 6, 2012 |

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Opere
11
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10
Utenti
478
Popolarità
#51,587
Voto
½ 3.5
Recensioni
2
ISBN
33
Lingue
1

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