Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The course begins with the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. It ends with the evangelical “hell houses” of the 21st-century ...

The artworks are included in the current show, 'Comparative Hell: Arts of Asian Underworlds.' “Comparative Hell: Arts of Asian Underworlds,” installation view at the Asia Society and Museum, New York.

Hell: Arts of Asian Underworlds is a rollicking romp through the many ways that Asian visual cultures have imagined the afterlife of the condemned over time. Paintings, sculptures, maps, puppets, and ...

Found across Asia, these popular theme parks began as temple gardens that warned visitors of Buddhism’s many levels of hell—and the gruesome fates that awaited them there. Singapore’s Haw Par Villa ...

The final panel of Bosch’s masterpiece presents a disturbing vision of damnation. This episode examines the symbolism, historical context, and competing interpretations behind one of the most haunting ...

Some of the West’s most memorable artworks depict heaven and hell. Consider juxtapositions of those regions by Giotto, Michelangelo or Hieronymus Bosch. I find especially unshakable Gislebertus’s Last ...

What prompted the idea for the course? When Meghan R. Henning, a scholar of early Christianity, completed her 2014 book on how the concept of hell evolved in the early Christian church, she wanted to ...