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Accidental Gods: On Men Unwittingly Turned Divine

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By (author): Anna Della Subin

A provocative history of race, empire and myth, told through the stories of men who have been worshipped as gods - from Columbus to Prince Philip Spanning the globe and five centuries, Accidental Gods introduces us to a new pantheon: of man-gods, deified politicians and imperialists, militants, mystics and explorers. From the conquistadors setting foot in the New World to Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, elevated by a National Geographic article from emperor to messiah for the Rastafari faith, to the unlikely officers hailed as gods during the British Raj, this endlessly curious and revelatory account chronicles an impulse towards deification that persists even in a secular age, as show of defiance or assertion of power. In her bravura final part, Subin traces the colonial desire for divinity through to the creation of 'race' and the white power movement today, and argues that it is time we rid ourselves of the white gods among us. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 714g
  • Dimensions: 153 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 13 Jan 2022
  • Publisher: Granta Books
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781783785018

About Anna Della Subin

Anna Della Subin is a writer critic and independent scholar born in New York and now living in Dublin. Her essays have appeared in Harper's the LRB New York Times and New Yorker. A senior editor at Bidoun she studied the history of religion at Harvard Divinity School. Accidental Gods is her first book.

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