A Million and One Gods

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"Many people worship not just one but many gods. Yet a relentless prejudice against polytheiosm denies legitimacy to some of the world's oldest and richest religious traditions. In her examination of polytheistic cultures both ancient and contemporary - those of Greece and Rome, the Bible and the Quran, as well as modern India - Page duBois refutes the idea that the worship of multiple gods naturally evolves over time into the "higher" belief in a single deity. [Here], she shows that polytheism has endured intact for millennia even in the West, despite the many hidden ways that monotheistic thought continues to shape Western outlooks. ..."--Book jacket.