TY  - BOOK
AU  - Subin,Anna Della
TI  - Accidental gods: on men unwittingly turned divine 
SN  - 1250296870
AV  - BL465 .S835 2021
U1  - 202/.130922 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt & Company
KW  - Apotheosis
KW  - Heroes
KW  - Biography
KW  - Kings and rulers
KW  - Religion and politics
KW  - Religion and sociology
KW  - Religious leaders
N1  - 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)
N2  - "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."--
ER  -