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Article: Early modern Europe -- Heaven and Hell in Enlightenment England by Philip C. Almond
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- The Catholic Historical Review
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- April 1, 1996
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Heaven and Hell in Enlightenment England. By Philip C. Almond. (New York: Cambridge University Press. 1994. Pp. xiii, 218. $49.95.)
In his introduction, Philip Almond differentiates this study from D. P. Walker's classic work, The Decline of Hell, by claiming that its focus will be both broader and more detailed. Walker, he maintains, has laid out the "main highways," while he proposes to complete the map by including "the pathways and byways that branched out from them." In less metaphorical terms, he aims to include conceptions of life after death drawn not only from canonical works, but from the "arcane, the obscure, and the forgotten"; to chronicle not only "the commonplace and the ...