Accidental Gods
Accidental Gods
On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine
By Anna Della Subin
Hardback | ISBN 9781783785018
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How does a man become a God?
It can happen by accident, or by prophesy, or through an article found in an oldmagazine. It can be a means to absolute power, or a radical form of resistance. A newgod can be a conqueror, a young anthropologist, or a government official charged withdoing his job. Making a man into a god is as old as time itself, but even today, in ourdisenchanted age, you might find yourself worshipped against your will.
Unorthodox devotions have seen Prince Philip deified on a small island in the SouthPacific, while a National Geographic article elevated Haille Selassie from Emperor toMessiah. Unlikely Gods blossomed in India, where British officers and bureaucratsfound themselves at the centre of new religions. When Spanish explorers landed in theNew World they spoke with the natives and heard the word 'God' on their lips. Thesetransformations have attended on moments of emancipation and rebellion; they haveexcused enslavement and fuelled revolution.
Spanning the globe and five centuries, Accidental Gods is a revelatory history of theunwanted divine, which tells the stories of the men and women who have profited andsuffered from these curious apotheoses. In its bravura final part, Subin traces thecolonial desire for deification through to the creation of 'race' and the white powermovement today, and argues that it is time we rid ourselves of the White Gods amongus.
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Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781783785018
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Publisher: Granta Books
Number of pages: 480
Width (mm): 153
Height (mm): 234
Depth (mm): 33
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