Hell
Wikipedia contributors · 2024 · Wikipedia
This source is used as context evidence across 1 linked claim and 3 related evidence hubs. Its citation record is marked verified; that verifies the source trail, not the truth of any linked claim.
Summary
Cross-religion overview of hell — the postmortem destination of the unrighteous — across the Abrahamic, Buddhist, Hindu, Zoroastrian, and ancient Near-Eastern traditions, and modern philosophical critiques (universalism, conditional immortality, annihilationism).
How this source is used on the map
Companion to wiki-heaven and the SEP heaven-and-hell entry; gives the cross-religion variation and the modern theological alternatives to eternal conscious torment.
Citation record
- Authors
- Wikipedia contributors
- Year
- 2024
- Publication
- Wikipedia
- Source type
- Secondary summary
- Map role
- context
- Credibility level
- secondary
- Citation status
- Verified
- DOI
- Not recorded
- PubMed
- Not recorded
- Not recorded
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Reference for claims about postmortem destinations within Christian frameworks; it clarifies the conceptual options before any evidential claim is assessed.
Direct background for any claim about whether something of the person survives death, and a useful guardrail against treating survival as a single simple proposition.
Useful background for claims involving God, religious figures, or traditions because it clarifies what counts as a religious claim before evidence is weighed.
General-audience entry point; pair with SEP entries for specific arguments (cosmological, ontological, fine-tuning).