A term with different meanings in different religious traditions and contexts that generally refers metaphorically to a holy land of some sort (and most specifically to a hill in Jerusalem).
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Zion Term Timeline in Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
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Chapter 10
...congregation on an imaginary “heavenly march” up through the stars and the pearly gates to Zion. His descriptions of hell were just as rich.
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