Includes bibliographical references (p. 246-255) and index
Contents
The great below -- The Egyptian book of the dead -- Zoroastrianism -- Classical Hades -- Platonic hell -- The Roman Empire -- Sheol -- Gnosticism -- Manichaeism -- The early Christians -- The descent into hell -- The last judgment -- Apocalyptic tours of hell -- The Middle Ages -- Mystery plays -- Purgatory -- Dante's Inferno -- The High Middle Ages -- The Reformation -- Baroque hell -- Paradise lost -- The mechanical universe -- The enlightenment -- Swedenborg's vision -- The nineteenth century -- Goethe's Faust -- The romantics -- Universalism -- The age of Freud.