Book ID: CBB000203446

To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divinization in Early China (2002)

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Puett, Michael J. (Author)


Harvard University Press


Publication Date: 2002
Physical Details: xv + 358 pp., bibl., index
Language: English

Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB000203446/

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Authors & Contributors
Cook, Constance A.
Brown, David
Wang, Xing
Greenbaum, Dorian Gieseler
Wheeler, Brannon M.
Walker, Joel Thomas
Journals
East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine
Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies
Japanese Journal of Religious Studies
Early Science and Medicine: A Journal for the Study of Science, Technology and Medicine in the Pre-modern Period
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Publishers
Brill
Hempen Verlag
State University of New York Press
Presses Universitaires de Vincennes
Pennsylvania State University Press
Oxford University Press
Concepts
Science and religion
Divination; prognostication
Magic
Astrology
Occult sciences
Astronomy
People
Hippocrates of Cos
Hermes, Trismegistus
Blavatsky, Helene Petrovna
Time Periods
Ancient
Medieval
4th century, B.C.
8th century
Qin dynasty (China, 221-207 B.C.)
Modern
Places
China
Middle and Near East
Mesopotamia
Greece
Rome (Italy)
Egypt
Institutions
Theosophical Society
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