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S 1492 goda, kogda Hristofor Kolumb vysadilsya na bereg v Novom Svete i byl provozglashen poslannikom nebes, sluchaynye bogi presleduyut nashu epohu. Ot Hayle Selassie, provozglashennogo na Yamayke Zhivym Bogom, do britanskogo printsa Filippa, kotoryy sluchayno stal klyuchevoy figuroy novoy religii na ostrove v yuzhnoy chasti Tihogo okeana, lyudi, stavshie bozhestvennymi, — imenno lyudi — poyavilis na vseh kontinentah. I poskolku eti obozhestvleniya vsegda voznikayut v momenty potryaseniy — grazhdanskih voyn, imperskih zavoevaniy, revolyutsiy, — oni mogut mnogomu nas nauchit. Za pyat stoletiy v raznyh ugolkah planety sformirovalsya panteon udivitelnyh bozhestv, izuchenie kotoryh pomogaet nayti otvety na slozhnye voprosy o tom, kak byla izobretena nasha sovremennaya kontseptsiya religii i pochemu religiya i politika postoyanno perepletayutsya v nash yakoby svetskiy vek.