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Accidental gods : on men unwittingly turned divine /

Subin, Anna Della,

Accidental gods : on men unwittingly turned divine / Anna Della Subin. - First edition. - New York : Metropolitan Books : Henry Holt & Company, 2021, ©2021. - xii, 462 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-444) and index.

First rites -- In the light of Ras Tafari -- The gospel of Philip -- MacArthur, four ways -- Gods in uniform -- The apotheosis of Nathaniel Tarn -- The mystical germ -- A tumescent trinity -- Passage -- The tyranny of love -- Mythopolitics -- Serpents -- Adam blushed -- How to kill a god -- Liberation (last rites).

"A provocative history of men who were worshiped as gods that illuminates the connection between power and religion and the role of divinity in a secular age."--

1250296870 9781250296870

2021002258


Apotheosis.
Heroes--Biography.
Kings and rulers--Biography.
Religion and politics.
Religion and sociology.
Religious leaders--Biography.

BL465 / .S835 2021

202/.130922

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