Sex and Heaven in Upstate New York‪.‬

Jesus said: those who go to heaven "... do not marry, for they are not subject to death any longer. They are like angels." This tantalizingly brief description of heaven has prompted considerable debate amongst Christians concerning the nature of the bodily resurrection and afterlife. Speculation was especially lively during the religious awakening that swept across nineteenth-century America, brushing aside pessimistic Calvinism and igniting a new era of religious utopianism. Upstate New York--the so-called "burned-over district"--spawned an unusual number of religious visionaries, each nurturing his or her own distinct vision of the resurrected life. **********