Accidental gods : on men unwittingly turned divine
(2021)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
202.130922/SUBIN,A
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Metropolitan Books ; Henry Holt & Company, 2021
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
xii, 462 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781250296870, 1250296870 :, 1250296870, 9781250296870
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
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 worshipped as gods that illuminates the connection between power and religion and the role of divinity in a secular age"--