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082 0 0 _a202/.130922
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100 1 _aSubin, Anna Della,
245 1 0 _aAccidental gods :
_bon men unwittingly turned divine /
_cAnna Della Subin.
250 _aFirst edition.
260 _aNew York :
_bMetropolitan Books :
_bHenry Holt & Company,
_c2021, ©2021.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bMetropolitan Books :
_bHenry Holt & Company,
_c2021.
264 4 _c©2021.
300 _axii, 462 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c25 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent.
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia.
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 387-444) and index.
505 0 _aFirst 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).
520 _a"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."--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 0 _aApotheosis.
650 0 _aHeroes
_vBiography.
650 0 _aKings and rulers
_vBiography.
650 0 _aReligion and politics.
650 0 _aReligion and sociology.
650 0 _aReligious leaders
_vBiography.
999 _c522510
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