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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Scientific Studies of Religion: Inquiry and Explanation
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Scientific studies of religion (Bloomsbury (Firm))
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
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. |
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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. |
| Summary |
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 from the ranks of the military, its spread, but not its popularity is attributable largely to military deployments and re-deployments. Although mithraists left behind no written archival evidence, there is an abundance of iconographic finds. The only characteristic common to all Mithraic temples we. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Mithraism.
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Mithraism. |
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Cognition and culture.
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Cognition and culture. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Martin, Luther H., 1937- Mind of Mithraists 9781472584199 (DLC) 2014025797 (OCoLC)878837330 |
| ISBN |
9781472584205 (electronic book) |
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1472584201 (electronic book) |
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9781472584199 |
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1472584198 |
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