Meeting in Heaven

Bernhard Lang, born in 1946, taught religious studies at the Universities of Tübingen, Mainz, and Paderborn (Germany) from 1978 to 2011 as well as at the Sorbonne in Paris and at the University of St Andrews (Scotland). He published a variety of books and was awarded an honorary degree of Doctor of Theology by the University of Aarhus (Denmark) in 2008.

• Contents: From stasis to movement, from loneliness to love: Heaven: A History (1988) in retrospect – The modernisation of heaven in early modern Europe, 1644-1791 – The English heaven: an exploration of The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678/84) – The Spanish heaven: opposition to modernity – A Swedish heaven: Swedenborg on Heaven and Hell (1758) – American heavens: an exploration of American cemeteries, 1740-1850.