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apotheosis
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
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apotheosis. The assimilation of a man to a god. Greeks and Romans made no firm distinction between gods and men, and from at least the 4th cent. BC cults were rendered to rulers as if to gods, though it does not appear that they were credited with supernatural powers. The Christians' refusal to take part in the cult of Roman emperors has sometimes been seen as a reason for their persecution by the government, but implausibly, since participation was not legally obligatory on any subject. See also
DEIFICATION.
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The revenge of practical reason? A review essay on Gananath Obeyesekere's The Apotheosis of Captain Cook.
Magazine article from: Oceania; 3/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...made my years at Chicago so intellectually rewarding. If The Apotheosis of Captain Cook presents a solid argument the probings of...Obeyesekere initially questioned the thesis of Cook's apotheosis by reflecting on his own South Asian background...
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APOTHEOSIS NOW: New triumphs for feminist heroine Judy Chicago; JUDY CHICAGO BOOK SIGNING
Newspaper article from: Santa Fe Reporter; 8/27/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Chicago celebrates her colorful 40-year career of feminist activism at the ramparts of contemporary art, as well as the apotheosis of her most ambitious single work, the legendary multi-media "Dinner Party" installation project, with its final acquisition...
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Apotheosis now
Magazine article from: The Village Voice; 7/16/2003; ; 700+ words
; Experiencing Dia:Beacon's Ashram of the Abstract APOTHEOSIS NOW DIA: BEACON 3 Beekman Street Beacon, New York Michael Kimmelman stirred up a hornet's nest recently when he called the...
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The apotheosis of Janaab' Pakal; science, history, and religion at classic Maya Palenque.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2007; 489 words
; 9780870818660 The apotheosis of Janaab' Pakal; science, history, and religion at classic Maya Palenque. Aldana, Gerardo. U. Press of Colorado 2007 230...
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The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific
Magazine article from: The Australian Journal of Anthropology; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; Gananath Obeyesekere. The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1998. xxi, 313pp...
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The apotheosis of Stephen Jay Gould. (Notebook).
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...gun evolutionist, the revisionist and rectifier of Darwinism, he was nothing of the sort. An account of Stephen Gould's apotheosis must address two issues. First is the set of scientific ideas with which his name is associated (in no small measure via...
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The Apotheosis of White Men?: A Reexamination of Beliefs about Europeans as Ancestral Spirits.
Magazine article from: Oceania; 6/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...implausible, as a violation of a general human practical rationality (1992:8, 19-2 1). It made more sense to understand the apotheosis of Captain Cook as the product of grandiose Western projected fantasies, as a part of our own mythmaking. The Melanesian...
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Music CDs: CLASSICAL: Couperin Les Apotheoses: London Baroque BIS
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 11/9/2003; ; 390 words
; ...style, he devised Les Gouts Reunis; a witty cross- cultural marriage formalised in the suite of the same name and in Les Apotheoses. To score Corelli and Lully's ascents to Parnassus and - in the Enlevement de Lulli - to depict a duet between the two...
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Comment on James A. Montanye's "Apotheosis of American Democracy".(CONTROVERSY)
Magazine article from: Independent Review; 3/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; In "The Apotheosis of American Democracy" (The Independent Review 11, no. 1 [2007]: 5-17), James A. Montanye's characterization of some...
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Holy Cow! The Apotheosis of Zebu, or Why the Cow is Sacred in Hinduism [*].
Magazine article from: Asian Folklore Studies; 12/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...possibility of drawing on the cow as a symbolic resource for creating ecological awareness in India by tracing her gradual apotheosis. The problem in so doing, however, is that the cow's rich symbolism in Hindu mythology is obviously limited to the nation...
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apotheosis
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
apotheosis , the act of raising a person who has died to the rank of a god. Historically...he died he was often solemnly enrolled as one of the gods to be publicly adored. Apotheosis is closely related to ancestor worship .
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Apotheosis
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Apotheosis (Gk., apo , ‘from’, + theoun , ‘to deify’). The elevation of a human being to the rank and status of a god. See also EUHEMERISM .
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...with frescoes representing Spain and Her Provinces and the Apotheosis of Spain. In oil he was also prolific. Tiepolo's works...are The Crucifixion (City Art Mus., St. Louis); The Apotheosis of Aeneas (Mus. of Fine Arts, Boston); and two allegorical...
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Lev Shestov
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...pervasive reality of ever-present egoism. Nowhere in his 13 published volumes does Shestov seem closer to nihilism than in The Apotheosis of Groundlessness (1905). His carefully-fashioned pensees are like thought-grenades which Shestov hurled at the cornerstones...
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Anton Raphael Mengs
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...retained some of the charming vitality and freshness of the rococo, notably in his portraits. In both the ceiling fresco Apotheosis of St. Eusebius (1757) for the church of S. Eusebio, Rome, and the ceiling fresco Parnassus (1761) for the Villa Albani...
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