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
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