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      Phoning It In: (Re)making Race and Religion in Zora Neale Hurston’s New Orleans Underworld
    • Since You’ve Been Gone: The Politics of Hysterectomy and the Impossibility of ‘Choice’
      Since You’ve Been Gone: The Politics of Hysterectomy and the Impossibility of ‘Choice’
    • Leo XIV: The (Great) Migrations Pope?
      Leo XIV: The (Great) Migrations Pope?
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    • Since You’ve Been Gone: The Politics of Hysterectomy and the Impossibility of ‘Choice’
      Since You’ve Been Gone: The Politics of Hysterectomy and the Impossibility of ‘Choice’
    • Capitalism’s Violence calls for Collective Wrath, not Luigi Mangione’s Privatized Rage
      Capitalism’s Violence calls for Collective Wrath, not Luigi Mangione’s Privatized Rage
    • HABEMUS PAPAM: New Pope Selection Signals Church’s Concerns about Spread of US, Global Authoritarianism
      HABEMUS PAPAM: New Pope Selection Signals Church’s Concerns about Spread of US, Global Authoritarianism
  • Christian Nationalism
    • The Billionaires Selling School Vouchers to Buy the Soul of a Nation
      The Billionaires Selling School Vouchers to Buy the Soul of a Nation
    • The US Right’s Campaign to Make More ‘Babies of a Certain Kind’
      The US Right’s Campaign to Make More ‘Babies of a Certain Kind’
    • Against American Exceptionalism? Pope Leo XIV v. US Christian Nationalism
      Against American Exceptionalism? Pope Leo XIV v. US Christian Nationalism
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    • Capitalism’s Violence calls for Collective Wrath, not Luigi Mangione’s Privatized Rage
      Capitalism’s Violence calls for Collective Wrath, not Luigi Mangione’s Privatized Rage
    • Remembering ‘MOVE’ as American religion on the 40th anniversary of Philadelphia bombing its own residents
      Remembering ‘MOVE’ as American religion on the 40th anniversary of Philadelphia bombing its own residents
    • Catholic Right Support isn’t the Only Reason Trump Believes He Can Get Away with Mockery of Catholicism
      Catholic Right Support isn’t the Only Reason Trump Believes He Can Get Away with Mockery of Catholicism
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Lisa Miller

Lisa Miller is religion editor at Newsweek.

Books, RD10QMay 12, 2010

Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife

By Lisa Miller

Where contemporary culture has come to think of heaven as a place to chat, catch up with friends, and eat ice cream, conservative believers are concerned that God has been left out of the picture. A new book by Newsweek’s religion editor, Lisa Miller, covers this and other top stories on the celestial beat.

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