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AFTER CERTAINTY

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Michael J. Puett

Scholar of early Chinese sacrifice, cosmology, and practices of becoming like a god.

Why this matters

Puett explores how ritual remakes agents—authority as transformative technique.

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Works

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To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and

Puett, Michael J. *To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and Self-Divinization in Early China*. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002.

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