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To Hell With it: Of sin and Sex, Chicken Wings, and Dante'S Entirely Ridiculous, Needlessly Guilt-Inducing Inferno (American Lives) (in English)
Dinty W. Moore
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University of Nebraska Press
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To Hell With it: Of sin and Sex, Chicken Wings, and Dante'S Entirely Ridiculous, Needlessly Guilt-Inducing Inferno (American Lives) (in English) - Moore, Dinty W.
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Synopsis "To Hell With it: Of sin and Sex, Chicken Wings, and Dante'S Entirely Ridiculous, Needlessly Guilt-Inducing Inferno (American Lives) (in English)"
Dante published his ambitious and unusual poem, Divine Comedy, more than seven hundred years ago. In the ensuing centuries countless retellings, innumerable adaptations, tens of thousands of fiery sermons from Catholic bishops and Baptist preachers, all those New Yorker cartoons, and masterpieces of European art have afforded Dante's fictional apparition of hell unending attention and credibility. Dinty W. Moore did not buy in. Moore started questioning religion at a young age, quizzing the nuns in his Catholic school, and has been questioning it ever since. Yet after years of Catholic school, religious guilt, and persistent cultural conditioning, Moore still can't shake the feelings of inadequacy, and asks: What would the world be like if eternal damnation was not hanging constantly over our sheepish heads? Why do we persist in believing a myth that merely makes us miserable? In To Hell with It, Moore reflects on and pokes fun at the over-seriousness of religion in various texts, combining narratives of his everyday life, reflections on his childhood, and religion's influence on contemporary culture and society.
