Sister Saints offers a sweeping history of modern Mormon women-a story that is much more complex than stereotypes suggest. Colleen McDannell shows, with keen insight and narrative flair, that Mormon women have long been critically important in creating, maintaining, and transforming their faith.
What do Christians believe they will experience after a virtuous life? What will an eternity in the hereafter be like? In this copiously illustrated, lively book, Colleen McDannell and Bernhard Lang describe and interpret the ways in which believersfrom biblical authors to medieval mystics, from Jesus to present-day religious thinkershave pictured Heaven, not just in doctrine but also in poetry, art, literature, and popular culture. In so doing, they shed new light on both the private and public dimensions of western culture. This second edition includes a substantial new preface relating the book to changing views of life after death in the new century.Author Biography: Colleen McDannell is Sterling McMurrin Chair of Religious Studies and associate professor of history at the University of Utah. She is also the author of Material Christianity. Bernhard Lang is professor of religion at the University of Paderborn, Germany, and the author of Sacred Games: A History of Christian Worship. Both of these books are published by Yale University Press.