Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife

Praise for Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife

“This fascinating, thoughtful, and challenging study tells us a great deal about what it means to be a human being.” — Karen Armstrong, New York Times bestselling author of A History of God and The Case for God

“Lisa Miller has long been the fairest and most engaging journalist covering religion in America. In Heaven, she has accomplished the impossible: She has written a book about religion that fundamentalists, moderates, liberals, and nonbelievers alike can read with extreme pleasure.” — Sam Harris, New York Times bestselling author of The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation

“Delightful and insightful. . . . This marvelous work is a readable and wonderfully realized study of this ‘constant hope’ that we share. . . . Whether we’re informed by scripture or by popular culture, HEAVEN will delight and edify readers at every level.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“A rare combination of journalism, memoir, and historical research by a self-professed skeptic who nonetheless believes in hope, this smart yet heartfelt book leads us into the center of one of the greatest conversations of all time. And Lisa Miller is the perfect conversation partner.” — Stephen Prothero, New York Times bestselling author of American Jesus and Religious Literacy

“Readers of HEAVEN will more likely than not find their own imaginations enriched, their experiences enhanced, their taste for exploration enlarged, and their impulse to reach out in empathy and hope quickened.” — Martin E. Marty, Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago

“Miller’s whirlwind tour of heaven is an entertaining primer on a most complex subject.” — Booklist