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WEST CHESTER, Penn., Sept. 1 /Christian Newswire/ -- The Swedenborg Foundation Press launches a new Spanish-language program with the publication of Un recorrido por los cielos y sus maravillas, a translation the Foundation's bestseller Afterlife.

Afterlife takes the essence of Swedenborg's classic Heaven and Hell and presents it chronologically, starting with the process of awakening after death and then taking the reader on a journey through both heaven and hell.  This shorter format provides an eye-opening introduction to Swedenborg's philosophy.

Sylvia Montgomery Shaw is a Mexican-American writer and scholar who was born in Mexico, grew up fully bilingual, majored in Spanish literature as an undergraduate, and earned a doctorate degree in English.  Her teaching career has taken her to the University of Rhode Island, Clark University, and Boston University.

Un recorrido por los cielos y sus maravillas
Emanuel Swedenborg / edited by Donald L. Rose / translated by Sylvia Montgomery Shaw
978-0-87785-425-8, 176 pp, $12.95 pb
Publication date: November 2010
Distribution:  Swedenborg Foundation c/o Chicago Distribution Center
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