Heaven can wait :

Pasulka, Diana Walsh,

Heaven can wait : Purgatory in Catholic devotional and popular culture / Diana Walsh Pasulka. - x, 207 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The problem with Purgatory -- When Purgatory was a place on earth: the Purgatory cave on the Red Lake in Ireland -- Lough Derg: 'heretical around the edges': moving Purgatory off the earth -- Exile from Ireland: Bishop John England's Republican apologetics of Purgatory -- That sensible neighborhood to hell: fiery apologetics: providence and materiality within the periodical (1830-1920) -- The ghosts of Vatican II: Purgatory apostolates and the lexicon of the supernatural.

9780195382020 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0195382021 (hardcover : alk. paper)

2014011175


Catholic Church--Doctrines.


Purgatory--History of doctrines.
Sacred space.
Purgatory.
Popular culture--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.

BT843 / .P37 2015

236.509