A Million and One Gods : : The Persistence of Polytheism / / Page duBois.
Many people worship not just one but many gods. Yet a relentless prejudice against polytheism 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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- CHAPTER ONE. The Prejudice against Polytheism
- CHAPTER TWO. Greeks, Romans, and Their Many Gods
- CHAPTER THREE. The Polytheism of Monotheism
- CHAPTER FOUR. The Politics of Polytheism
- Epilogue
- NOTES
- Acknowledgments
- Index