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<p><b>NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY <i>ESQUIRE</i>, <i>THE IRISH TIMES</i> AND THE <i>TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT<br></i><br>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<br><br></b>Ever since 1492, when Christopher Columbus made landfall in the New World and was hailed as a heavenly being, the accidental god has haunted the modern age. From Haile Selassie, acclaimed as the Living God in Jamaica, to Britain’s Prince Philip, who became the unlikely center of a new religion on a South Pacific island, men made divine—always men—have appeared on every continent. And because these deifications always emerge at moments of turbulence—civil wars, imperial conquest, revolutions—they have much to teach us.<br><br>In a revelatory history spanning five centuries, a cast of surprising deities helps to shed light on the thorny questions of how our modern concept of “religion” was invented; why religion and politics are perpetually entangled in our supposedly secular age; and how the power to call someone divine has been used and abused by both oppressors and the oppressed. From nation

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Author

Anna Della Subin

Publisher

Metropolitan Books ; Henry Holt & Company

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781250296870

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, Other Religions