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Beyond: How Humankind Thinks About Heaven by Catherine Wolff
Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/482618 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Beyond: How Humankind Thinks About Heaven
Author: Catherine Wolff
Narrator: Maggie-Meg Reed
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 11 hours 43 minutes
Release date: May 25, 2021
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1
Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1
Genres: World
Publisher's Summary:
A smart and thought-provoking cultural history of heaven. What do we think of when we think about heaven? What might it look like? Who or what might be there? Since humans began to huddle together for protection thousands of years ago, these questions have been part of how civilizations and cultures define heaven, the good place beyond this one. From Christianity to Islam to Hinduism and beyond, from the brush of Michelangelo to the pen of Dante, people across millennia have tried to explain and describe heaven in ways that are distinctive and analogous, unique and universal. In this engrossing cultural history of heaven, Catherine Wolff delves into how people and cultures have defined heaven over the centuries. She describes how different faiths and religions have framed it, how the sense of heaven has evolved, and how nonreligious influences have affected it, from the Enlightenment to the increasingly nonreligious views of heaven today. Wolff looks deep into the accounts of heaven to discover what’s common among them and what makes each conception distinct and memorable. The result is Beyond, an engaging, thoughtful exploration of an idea that is central to our humanity and our desire to define an existence beyond death. * This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF that contains recommendations for further reading – books the author returned to again and again in her extensive research.
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By thebookvoice.comPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/482618 to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Beyond: How Humankind Thinks About Heaven
Author: Catherine Wolff
Narrator: Maggie-Meg Reed
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 11 hours 43 minutes
Release date: May 25, 2021
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 1
Ratings of Narrator: 4 of Total 1
Genres: World
Publisher's Summary:
A smart and thought-provoking cultural history of heaven. What do we think of when we think about heaven? What might it look like? Who or what might be there? Since humans began to huddle together for protection thousands of years ago, these questions have been part of how civilizations and cultures define heaven, the good place beyond this one. From Christianity to Islam to Hinduism and beyond, from the brush of Michelangelo to the pen of Dante, people across millennia have tried to explain and describe heaven in ways that are distinctive and analogous, unique and universal. In this engrossing cultural history of heaven, Catherine Wolff delves into how people and cultures have defined heaven over the centuries. She describes how different faiths and religions have framed it, how the sense of heaven has evolved, and how nonreligious influences have affected it, from the Enlightenment to the increasingly nonreligious views of heaven today. Wolff looks deep into the accounts of heaven to discover what’s common among them and what makes each conception distinct and memorable. The result is Beyond, an engaging, thoughtful exploration of an idea that is central to our humanity and our desire to define an existence beyond death. * This audiobook includes a downloadable PDF that contains recommendations for further reading – books the author returned to again and again in her extensive research.