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To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divinization in Early China, Vol. 0 Book

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  • To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divinization in Early China, Vol. 0
  • Written by author Michael J. Puett
  • Published by Harvard University Press, October 2004
  • 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 separate and ag
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Introduction
Secondary Scholarship5
Method of Analysis21
Outline26
1Anthropomorphizing the Spirits: Sacrifice and Divination in Late Bronze Age China31
2Gaining the Powers of Spirits: The Emergence of Self-Divinization Claims in the Fourth Century B.C.80
3Accepting the Order of Heaven: Humanity and Divinity in Zhuangzi and Mencius122
4Descendants of the One: Correlative Cosmology in the Late Warring States145
5The Ascension of the Spirit: Liberation, Spirit Journeys, and Celestial Wanderings201
6A Theocracy of Spirits: Theism, Theomorphism, and Alchemy in the Qin and Early Han Empires225
7Aligning and Orienting the Cosmos: Anthropomorphic Gods and Theomorphic Humans in the Huainanzi259
8The Sacrifices That Order the World: Divine Kingship and Human Kingship in the Western Han287
Conclusion: Culture and History in Early China317
Bibliography327
Index345


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