Alan Segal teaches religion at Barnard College. For ten years he worked on this book Life After Death (880 pages, Doubleday, 2004) subtitled, A History of the Afterlife in Western Religion . This brilliant book is chock full of quality facts and insights and rightfully takes it place among those sweeping, comprehensive and analytical interdisciplinary works on great ideas in western culture. This is a work by an accomplished scholar for others who seek humanistic understanding. Segal do