TY  - BOOK
AU  - Puett,Michael J.
TI  - To become a god: cosmology, sacrifice, and self-divinization in early China 
T2  - Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series
SN  - 0674009592 (alk. paper)
AV  - BT100 .P9 2002
U1  - 299/.51 21
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - Published by the Harvard University Asia Center for the Harvard-Yenching Institute, Distributed by Harvard University Press
KW  - God
KW  - Proof, Cosmological
KW  - Divination
KW  - China
KW  - Dieu
KW  - Existence
KW  - Preuve cosmologique
KW  - Chine
KW  - Kosmologie
KW  - swd
KW  - Geschichte Anfänge-200
KW  - Gottesbeweis
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-343) and index; Anthropomorphizing the spirits: sacrifice and divination in Late Bronze Age China -- Gaining the powers of spirits: the emergence of self-divinization claims in the fourth century B.C. / Accepting the order of heaven: humanity and divinity in Zhuangzi and Mencius -- Descendants of the one: correlative cosmology in the late warring states -- The ascension of the spirit: liberation, spirit journeys, and celestial wanderings -- A theocracy of spirits: theism, theomorphism, and alchemy in the Qin and early Han empires -- Aligning and orienting the cosmos: anthropomorphic gods and theomorphic humans in the Huainanzi -- The sacrifices that order the world: divine kingship and human kingship in the western Han
ER  -