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The mind of Mithraists : historical and cognitive studies in the Roman cult of Mithras /
The Roman cult of Mithras was the most widely-dispersed and densely-distributed cult throughout the expanse of the Roman Empire from the end of the first until the fourth century AD, rivaling the early growth and development of Christianity during the same period. As its membership was largely drawn...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2015.
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| Colección: | Scientific studies of religion (Bloomsbury (Firm))
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; 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, Cognitive Science, and Historiography: The Case of the Roman Cults of Mithras; 6 The Landscapes and Mindscape of the Roman Cult of Mithras.
- 7 Cult Migration, Social Formation, and Religious Identity in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: The Curious Case of Roman Mithraism8 The Amor and Psyche Relief in the Mithraeum of Capua Vetere: An Exceptional Case of Graeco-Roman Syncretism or an Ordinary Instance of Human Cognition?; 9 The (Surprising Absence of a) Mithras Cult in Roman Egypt; Notes; References; Index.