The mind of Mithraists: historical and cognitive studies in the Roman cult of Mithras
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction1. Roman Mithraism and Christianity2. Reflections on the Mithraic Tauroctony as Cult Scene3. The Roman Cult of Mithras: A Cognitive Perspective4. Ritual Competence and Mithraic Ritual5. The Ecology of Threat Detection and Precautionary Response from th...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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London [u.a.]
Bloomsbury Academic
2015
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| In: | Year: 2015 |
| Edition: | 1. publ. |
| Series/Journal: | Scientific studies of religion : inquiry and explanation
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Mithraism
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| IxTheo Classification: | BE Greco-Roman religions |
| Further subjects: | B
Cognition and culture
B Mithraism Rome B Mithraism |
| Summary: | Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction1. Roman Mithraism and Christianity2. Reflections on the Mithraic Tauroctony as Cult Scene3. The Roman Cult of Mithras: A Cognitive Perspective4. Ritual Competence and Mithraic Ritual5. The Ecology of Threat Detection and Precautionary Response from the Perspectives of Evolutionary Psychology and Historiography: The Case of the Roman Cults of Mithras6. Landscape and Mindscape in the Roman Cult of Mithras7. 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 the Graeco-Roman Syncretism or an Ordinary Instance of Human Cognition? 9. The (Surprising Absence of A) Mithras Cult in EgyptBibliographyIndex |
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| Item Description: | Formerly CIP |
| Physical Description: | VIII, 189 S., Ill., 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4725-8419-9 |
