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PASULKA, D. W., Heaven Can Wait. Purgatory in Catholic Devotional and Popular Culture. Oxford University Press, 2015. 224p. Hardback. Purgatory is one of those key devotional topics that everyone in the Catholic world knows about, but almost no one knows how to talk about. Diana Walsh Pasulka knows how to talk about it: historically, sympathetically, and critically. What she gives us here is an eloquent history of purgatory that is sensitive to both the lived, often eccentric, religious and visionary experiences of the believers and the wider public debates and institutional politics that have defined and disciplined the official doctrine down through the centuries. It turns out that there is not one but many purgatories, and that these are even more interesting, and more eerie, than anyone imagined. Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred (Publisher's information). € 54.34 (New) (Printed on Demand) (approx. delivery time: 4 weeks) ISBN: 9780195382020