To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divinization in Early China by Michael Puett

To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divinization in Early China

Michael Puett

384 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction religion informative medium-paced
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Evidence from Shang oracle bones to memorials submitted to Western Han emperors attests to a long-lasting debate in early China over the proper relationship between humans and gods. One pole of the debate saw the human and divine realms as separat...

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