Just as with heaven and hell, women are more likely than men to believe in reincarnation (38% vs. 27%), but the age pattern on this question differs from the ones observed on the prior two questions.

“The traditional views of heaven and hell are about 95% mythology,” says Notre Dame’s Jesuit Biblical Scholar John McKenzie. Except among some fundamentalists, ...

Many of my secular friends are confounded. How could Jesus-loving people support a bill so harsh and regressive? "What ...

Samuel Johnson quipped that even the admirers of John Milton’s epic never wished it “longer than it is.” But “Paradise Lost” reshaped English literature.

He looks not only at our tales of heaven and hell, but at tales of the undead (vampires and zombies), of death’s denizens (angels, demons, and the Devil), and of purgatory.

The oft-cliched Christian notion of heaven — a blissful realm of harp-strumming angels — has remained a fixture of the faith for centuries. Even as arguments go on as to who will or won't be ...

St. John Bosco on Heaven. St. John Bosco, known as Don Bosco, wrote of his vision of heaven on Dec. 6, 1876. He said that “all was blue as the calmest sea, though what I saw was not water …” ...

“Journeys to Heaven and Hell” by Bart D. Ehrman, a highly respected New Testament scholar, tells some of the different notions various nations and people had about the afterlife in ancient times.

C.S. Lewis revolutionized the images of heaven and hell in 1945 with his novel “The Great Divorce.” Instead of hell being a torturous, blazing inferno, it was a drab and ...