I.B.Tauris Afterlife by Philip Almond | sku-851616267

Afterlife by Philip Almond, from I.B.Tauris, traces Western ideas about what follows death. This Religion & Religious Studies Books title visits the Styx, where Charon demands a gold obol placed on the dead person's tongue, as well as the Isles of the Blessed, the Elysian Fields and Tartarus.

It also covers the damned in Lucifer's caverns and the elect in Paradise, medieval fears about people consumed by cannibals, early modern ideas of the Last Day, and modern scientific explorations of the dead. Almond examines imaginings of Heaven, Hell, Purgatory and Limbo in this full treatment of the afterlife in Western thought. SKU sku-851616267.