The Religion of the Mithras Cult in the Roman Empire: Mysteries of the Unconquered Sun
Author:   Roger Beck (Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Edition:   New edition
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9780199216130


Pages:   304
Publication Date:   08 March 2007
Format:   Paperback
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A study of the religious system of Mithraism, one of the 'mystery cults' popular in the Roman Empire contemporary with early Christianity. Roger Beck describes Mithraism from the point of view of the initiate engaging with the religion and its rich symbolic system in thought, word, ritual action, and cult life. He employs the methods of anthropology of religion and the new cognitive science of religion to explore in detail the semiotics of the Mysteries' astral symbolism, which has been the principal subject of his many previous publications on the cult.

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Author:   Roger Beck (Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.70cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.469kg
ISBN:  

9780199216130


ISBN 10:   0199216134
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   08 March 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1: Introduction to interpreting the mysteries: old ways, new ways 2: Old ways: the reconstruction of Mithraic doctrine from iconography 3: The problem of referents: interpretation with reference to what? 4: Doctrine redefined Transition: from old ways to new ways 5: The Mithraic mysteries as symbol system. 1. Introduction and comparisons 6: Cognition and representation 7: The Mithraic mysteries as symbol system. 2. The mithraeum 8: Star-talk: the symbols of the Mithraic mysteries as language signs 9: The Mithraic mysteries as symbol system. 3. The tauroctony 10: Excursus Conclusions:

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This makes for an interesting eclectic journey through one of the most mysterious cults in the Roman Empire... Throughout the book this interpretative scheme is filled out with impressively meticulous analysis of the textual evidence, the symbolic structutre of the mithraeum, and the tauroctony. Anders Lisdorf, Journal of Roman Studies In learned and fascinationg detail, he explains the mithraeum as both symbolically and actually as a representation of the universe. Inga Mantle, The Journal of Classics Teaching


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Roger Beck is Professor Emeritus, at the University of Toronto.

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