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Colleen McDannell

Autor(a) de Heaven: A History

11+ Works 473 Membros 2 Críticas

About the Author

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

Includes the name: Colleen McDonnell

Image credit: from University of Utah faculty page

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Associated Works

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

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1954
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
USA
País (no mapa)
USA
Educação
University of Colorado (BA)
University of Denver (MA)
Temple University (PhD)
Ocupações
history professor, University of Utah
Organizações
University of Utah
Prémios e menções honrosas
Sterling M. McMurrin Chair in Religious Studies, University of Utah

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Colleen McDannell, Sterling McMurrin Chair of Religious Studies and associate professor of history at the University of Utah.

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Críticas

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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Assinalado
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
 
Assinalado
kijabi1 | Jan 6, 2012 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
11
Also by
10
Membros
473
Popularidade
#52,094
Avaliação
½ 3.5
Críticas
2
ISBN
33
Línguas
1

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