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The Deities Are Many
Jordan Paper
其他書名
A Polytheistic Theology
出版SUNY Press, 2005-03-17
主題Religion / TheologyReligion / Comparative ReligionReligion / Theism
ISBN07914638779780791463871
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=oerVdmfGfmkC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The Deities Are Many is a lively and learned introduction to polytheism. Drawing from both his scholarly research and his personal experience, author Jordan Paper is the ideal guide into this milieu. Paper was drawn to polytheism through his love of nature, seeing it as a source of the divine. In this book he focuses on Chinese and Native American religious traditions, as well as West African, African-Brazilian, Hindu, Polynesian, and circum-Polar traditions, to describe the theology of polytheism. The book provides a topology of polytheistic deities, focusing on the cosmic couple, Father Sky and Mother Earth; animal, plant, and mineral deities; ancestral spirits; divine ghosts; and culture heroes and tricksters. Paper also shows how monotheists misunderstand polytheism and provides a polytheist perspective on what it means to be human when the “deities are many.” This is a fascinating, illuminating book, especially for those raised in monotheistic societies.