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A review by belladonna230622
The History of Hell by Alice K. Turner
4.0
This wasn’t a book that I originally planned on reading. After a long discussion about hell with a friend, my dad told me to read this.
It’s a really interesting book that explores hell in religion and pop-culture. It explores the religions of antiquity and their versions of hell, the most well known of course being the underworld and Hades (thanks Disney for making Hercules). Then it transitions into the monotheistic religions starting with Zoroastrianism through Judaism and into Christianity. After that we explore popular culture such as Gothic and romantic literature, and finishing with art.
The book is quite a journey, and I’m glad that I didn’t read it all at once. I feel like if I had, I would have been overloaded by information and remember very little of what I read. I only really have one criticism and that’s that I would have liked to explore the other religions a bit more. But, it was interesting to hear about other Christian beliefs as well as other religions beliefs of hell, and see how they evolved and changed with time.
It’s a really interesting book that explores hell in religion and pop-culture. It explores the religions of antiquity and their versions of hell, the most well known of course being the underworld and Hades (thanks Disney for making Hercules). Then it transitions into the monotheistic religions starting with Zoroastrianism through Judaism and into Christianity. After that we explore popular culture such as Gothic and romantic literature, and finishing with art.
The book is quite a journey, and I’m glad that I didn’t read it all at once. I feel like if I had, I would have been overloaded by information and remember very little of what I read. I only really have one criticism and that’s that I would have liked to explore the other religions a bit more. But, it was interesting to hear about other Christian beliefs as well as other religions beliefs of hell, and see how they evolved and changed with time.