The End of Heaven

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Disaster, religion and science -- The book of blots -- A question of what, a question of why -- Acts of God -- Better be wrong than afraid -- Notes -- 2. Son of a preacherwoman -- Disaster without sacred purpose -- Mutable religion -- Secularization and suffering -- Notes -- 3. The entitled class -- Pride before the disaster -- Rebels and thieves -- Notes -- 4. Existential dread -- Free to choose -- Notes -- 5. Human error -- You asked for it -- Get shot -- Notes -- 6. A question of faith -- Silver lining -- A last murmur and a nightingale -- Notes -- 7. Killing death -- Puppies and jewels -- The book of the dead -- "I saw my dead father approaching"--Notes -- 8. Returning to dust -- The politics of disaster -- From revenge to reunion -- Notes -- 9. Grief without a god -- Future of an illusion -- "It is all over"--Notes -- 10. The end of death -- Death as a technical problem -- From Cicero to C.S. Lewis -- The meaning of life -- We're not the first -- Notes -- 11. Resurrecting heaven -- Man-made -- Slack morals -- A better world -- Science as the new savior? -- Notes -- Coda -- Bibliography -- Index