. Over the course of late antiquity and the Middle Ages, Christians developed an understanding of life after death that included the idea of a purification (purgation, purgatorial fires) of the soul for sins committed, with the gradual definition of a...

In Roman Catholic Christianity, purgatory, is a "final purification" of souls after death. Some religions have similar beliefs, if not about soul purification, which some of them explicitly deny, at least about the possibility of an improvement in the...