Our Divine Double
Author | : Charles M. Stang |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2016-03-07 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780674970182 |
ISBN-10 | : 0674970187 |
Rating | : 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Our Divine Double by : Charles M. Stang
Download or read book Our Divine Double written by Charles M. Stang and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you were to discover that you were only one half of a whole—that you had a divine double? In the second and third centuries CE, Charles Stang shows, this idea gripped the religious imagination of the Eastern Mediterranean, offering a distinctive understanding of the self that has survived in various forms down to the present.