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A million and one gods : the persistence of polytheism / Page duBois.
- Title
- A million and one gods : the persistence of polytheism / Page duBois.
- Author
- DuBois, Page.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | BL217 .D83 2014 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 199 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "Many people worship not just one but many gods. Yet a relentless prejudice against polytheiosm denies legitimacy to some of the world's oldest and richest religious traditions. In her examination of polytheistic cultures both ancient and contemporary - those of Greece and Rome, the Bible and the Quran, as well as modern India - Page duBois refutes the idea that the worship of multiple gods naturally evolves over time into the "higher" belief in a single deity. [Here], she shows that polytheism has endured intact for millennia even in the West, despite the many hidden ways that monotheistic thought continues to shape Western outlooks. ..."--Book jacket.
- Subject
- Polytheism
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The prejudice against polytheism -- Greeks, Romans, and their many gods -- The polytheism of monotheism -- The politics of polytheism.
- ISBN
- 9780674728837 (alk. paper)
- 0674728831 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2013040259
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library