Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife

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Paperback
2011
$15.72

Wonderful.... A smart and accessible take on the ultimate question: What is Heaven? Lisa's book is a good place to begin to find an answer.
- Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Lion
A rare combination of journalism, memoir, and historical research ... this smart yet heartfelt book leads us into the center of one of the greatest conversations of all time. And Lisa Miller is the perfect conversation partner.
- Stephen Prothero, New York Times bestselling author of American Jesus and Religious Literacy
A groundbreaking history of the hereafter, Heaven by Newsweek reporter and religion editor Lisa Miller draws from both history and popular culture to reveal how past and presage visions of heaven have evolved and how they inspire us to both good and evil.

Synopsis

Wonderful.... A smart and accessible take on the ultimate question: What is Heaven? Lisa's book is a good place to begin to find an answer.
- Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Lion

A rare combination of journalism, memoir, and historical research ... this smart yet heartfelt book leads us into the center of one of the greatest conversations of all time. And Lisa Miller is the perfect conversation partner.
- Stephen Prothero, New York Times bestselling author of American Jesus and Religious Literacy

A groundbreaking history of the hereafter, Heaven by Newsweek reporter and religion editor Lisa Miller draws from both history and popular culture to reveal how past and presage visions of heaven have evolved and how they inspire us to both good and evil.

$15.72

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 368
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Published: 15 Apr 2011
ISBN 10: 0060554762
ISBN 13: 9780060554767

Media Reviews

This fascinating, thoughtful, and challenging study tells us a great deal about what it means to be a human being. -- Karen Armstrong, New York Times bestselling author of A History of God and The Case for God
Lisa Miller has long been the fairest and most engaging journalist covering religion in America. In Heaven, she has accomplished the impossible: She has written a book about religion that fundamentalists, moderates, liberals, and nonbelievers alike can read with extreme pleasure. -- Sam Harris, New York Times bestselling author of The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation
Delightful and insightful. . . . This marvelous work is a readable and wonderfully realized study of this `constant hope' that we share. . . . Whether we're informed by scripture or by popular culture, HEAVEN will delight and edify readers at every level. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
A rare combination of journalism, memoir, and historical research by a self-professed skeptic who nonetheless believes in hope, this smart yet heartfelt book leads us into the center of one of the greatest conversations of all time. And Lisa Miller is the perfect conversation partner. -- Stephen Prothero, New York Times bestselling author of American Jesus and Religious Literacy
Readers of HEAVEN will more likely than not find their own imaginations enriched, their experiences enhanced, their taste for exploration enlarged, and their impulse to reach out in empathy and hope quickened. -- Martin E. Marty, Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago
Miller's whirlwind tour of heaven is an entertaining primer on a most complex subject. -- Booklist

Author Bio

Lisa Miller is an award-winning journalist and an editor at Newsweek, where she writes regularly about religion, values, culture, and politics. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.