History of Heaven: Mysticism, Religion, Science and Human Evolution

Oxford scholar Tobias Churton has written the first book to trace humanity's ideas of heaven across every culture and era — and the conversation goes places you won't expect. Why does hell begin as a fear of restless ancestors? Did atheism require civilization to exist? Is "Imagine" actually the most depressing song ever written? Churton is erudite, funny, and surprisingly candid about what he himself believes. Wide-ranging, thought-provoking, and genuinely hard to stop listening to.