The mind of Mithraists : historical and cognitive studies in the Roman cult of Mithras
Luther H. Martin
Bok · Engelsk · 2015
| Omfang | viii, 189 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | Heftet utgave: 2016. - 1. Roman Mithraism and Christianity -- 2. Reflections on the Mithraic Tauroctony as cult scene -- 3. The Roman cult of Mithras : a cognitive perspective -- 4. Ritual competence and Mithraic ritual -- 5. The ecology of threat detection and precautionary response from the perspectives of evolutionary psychology and historiography : the case of the Roman cults of Mithras -- 6. The landscape and mindscape in the Roman cult of Mithras -- 7. Cult migration, social formation, and religious identity in Graeco-Roman antiquity : the curious case of Roman Mithraism -- 8. The Amor and Psyche relief in the Mithraeum of Capua Vetere : an exceptional case of the Graeco-Roman syncretism or an ordinary instance of human cognition? -- 9. The (surprising absence of a) Mithras cult in Egypt
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| ISBN | 9781472584199. - 9781474288699
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