And Man Created God: Kings, Cults and Conquests at the Time of Jesus

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Atlantic, 2013 - History - 416 pages
This text takes the reader on a geographical and intellectual journey across the evolving empires and kingdoms of the ancient world. Through evocations of individual rulers and holy men, Selina O'Grady shows how emperors sought to shape religion to their ends, and how religion shaped emperors and their subjects.

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About the author (2013)

Selina O'Grady was a producer of BBC1's moral documentary series Heart of the Matter presented by Joan Bakewell, Channel 4's live chat show After Dark and Radio 4's history series Leviathan. She has reviewed regularly for the San Francisco Chronicle, Literary Review and Tablet, and she is the co-editor of two books: Great Spirits: The Fifty-Two Christians who Most Influenced their Millennium and A Deep But Dazzling Darkness.

Bibliographic information

TitleAnd Man Created God: Kings, Cults and Conquests at the Time of Jesus
AuthorSelina O'Grady
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherAtlantic, 2013
ISBN1843546973, 9781843546979
Length416 pages
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History / World
Religion / Christian Church / History
Religion / Christianity / General
Social Science / Sociology of Religion
  
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