Primary sources are materials which were created closest to the person, historical event, or time period being studied. For this topic, examples include pieces of art, literature, or movies.
The database below provide primary source information:
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Secondary sources offer interpretation or commentary on primary sources. They are the “product” of scholars doing research. Secondary sources, therefore, can be argued with, criticized, or defended against criticism. Examples of secondary sources include:
Your Professor has also provided Secondary Sources relevant to your coursework
Book
Auffarth, Christopher and Loren Stuckenbruck, The Fall of the Angels (2014)
Bodman, Whitney, The Poetics of Iblis: Narrative Theology in the Qur’an (2011)
Brown, Peter. The Ransom of the Soul. 2015 [ebook]
Colby, Frederick, Narrating Muhammad’s Night Journey (2008) [ebook]
Cook, David, Contemporary Muslim Apocalyptic Literature (2005)
De La Torre, Miguel and Albert Hernández, The Quest for the Historical Satan.
Dendle, Peter, Satan Unbound: The Devil in Old English Narrative Literature (2001)
De Villiers, Marq, Hell and Damnation: A Sinner’s Guide to Eternal Torment (2019) [ebook in library]
Ehrman, Bart, Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife (2020)
Eliade, Mircea, A History of Religious Ideas, (1978): BL48.E3813
Kelly, Henry Ansgar, Satan: A Biography (2006)
Khalil, Mohammad, Islam and the Fate of Others (2012)
Lange, Christian, Paradise and Hell in Islamic Traditions (2016): BP166.8 .L36 2016
McDannell, Colleen, Heaven: A History (1988): BT846.2.M37 1988
Mermelstein and Holtz (eds.), The Divine Courtroom in Comparative Perspective (2014)
Poonawala, "Shi'ite Apocalyptic" in M. Eliade, ed., Encyclopedia of World Religions
Rustomji, Nerina. The Garden and the Fire: Heaven and Hell in Islamic Culture. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.
Segal, Alan, Life After Death: A History of the Afterlife in Religions of the West (2004): BL535 .S438 2004
Stausber, Michael, “Hell in Zoroastrian History” (2009)
Turner, Alice. The History of Hell. 1993. BL545 .T87 1993
Ulansey, David, The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries: Cosmology and Salvation in the Ancient World (1988)
Walls, The Oxford Handbooks of Eschatology (2008)
Zaleski, Carol. Otherworld Journeys: Accounts of Near-Death Experience in Medieval and Modern Times. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Article
Abrahamov, “The Creation and Duration of Paradise and Hell in Islamic Theology”
Alexander, Paul, “Medieval Apocalypses as Historical Sources” (1968)
Aune, David, “The Apocalypse of John and Palestinian Jewish Apocalyptic” (2006)
Bassett, Jonathan, “Fears of Finitude and Eternity: Attitudes about Immortality and the Afterlife in Selected Movies,” (2014)
Boureau, Alain, Satan the Heretic: The Birth of Demonology in the Medieval West (2006)
Bremmer, Jan M. “Tours of Hell: Greek, Jewish, Roman and Early Christian” in Topographie des Jenseits: Studien zur Geschichte des Todes in Kaiserzeit und Spätanantike. Ed. Walter Ameling. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2011, pp. 13–34
Buell, Denise, “The Afterlife is Not Dead: Spiritualism, Postcolonial Theory, and Early Christian Studies” (2009)
Burris and Bailey, “What Lies Beyond: Theory and Measurement of Afterdeath Beliefs” (2009)
Cavallaro, Daniela. “Go and Sin No More: The Afterlife as Moral Teaching in Italian Catholic Educational Theatre.” Religions Vol 10.9 (2019), 517
Edwards, Emily, Metaphysical Media: The Occult Experience in Popular Culture (2005)
Frankfurter, David, Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Ritual Abuse in History (2006)
Gardiner, Eileen, ed. Zoroastrian Hell: Visions, Tours and Descriptions of the Infernal Otherworld. Second Edition. New York: Italica Press, 2013.
Gin, Kathryn, “’The Heavenization of Earth’: African American Visions and Uses of the Afterlife, 1863-1901” (2010)
Kinberg, Leah, “Interaction between This World and the Afterworld in Early Islamic Tradition” (1986)
Kriwaczek, Paul, In Search of Zarathustra: The First Prophet and the Ideas that Changed the World (2003)
Kueny, Kathryn, “Tasting Fire: Affective Turn in Qur’anic Depictions of Divine Punishment” (2019)
Landes, Heaven and Earth (2011)
Mehr, Farhang, The Zoroastrian Tradition: An Introduction to the Ancient Wisdom of Zarathustra (2003)
O’Shaughnessy, Thomas, “The Seven Names for Hell in the Qur’an” (1961)
Tillier, Mathieu, “The Qadi Before the Judge: The Social Use of Eschatology in Muslim Courts” (2014) (chapter in ebook)
