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Alessandro Scafi

Mapping Paradise

A History of Heaven on Earth

400 pages, 16 color plates, 175 halftones  8-1/2 x 11  © 2006

Cloth $55.00

ISBN: 9780226735597   Published August 2006
For sale in North and South America only

Preface
List of Abbreviations

Prologue: Journeying to Paradise

1. Changing Views on Paradise on Maps

2. Paradise in the Bible

3. Locating Paradise in Space

4. Locating Paradise in Time

5. Mapping Paradise in Space and Time

6. The Heyday of Paradise on Maps

7. Where is Nowhere?

8. The Twilight of Paradise on Maps

9. Paradise Lost and Found

10. The Afterlife of Paradise on Maps

11. The Eclipse of the Theological Eden

Epilogue: Paradise Then and Now

Bibliography
Index
Awards
  • PROSE Book Award
  • Choice Outstanding Academic Title Awards
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