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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.
Why this matters here
Michael Puett examines cosmology, sacrifice, and ritual conceptions of agency in early China. The manuscript draws on that inquiry for the learned practices of ritual specialists, without asserting that one scholarly study establishes the origin of all Confucian teaching.
