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Religion Comparative Religion

The History of Hell

by (author) Alice K. Turner & Donadio & Olson

Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Initial publish date
Jan 2001
Category
Comparative Religion
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780156001373
    Publish Date
    Jan 2001
    List Price
    $32

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Description

A “lively...generously illustrated” (Washington Post Book World) survey of how, over the past four thousand years, religious leaders, artists, writers, and ordinary people in the West have visualized Hell-its location, architecture, purpose, and inhabitants. Illustrations; full-color inserts.

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Contributor Notes

ALICE K. TURNER served as the fiction editor of Playboy from 1980 to 2000.