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Author | : Gaston Halsberghe |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 189 |
Release | : 2015-11-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004296255 |
Preliminary material /Gaston H. Halsberghe -- THE LITERARY TEXTS /Gaston H. Halsberghe -- THE SUN CULT UP TO THE FIRST CENTURY OF THE EMPIRE /Gaston H. Halsberghe -- THE EASTERN RELIGIONS: THEIR DISTRIBUTION AND ADHERENTS /Gaston H. Halsberghe -- SOL INVICTUS ELAGABAL /Gaston H. Halsberghe -- THE CONTINUATION OF THE CULT OF SOL INVICTUS /Gaston H. Halsberghe -- THE REIGN OF AURELIAN /Gaston H. Halsberghe -- CONCLUSION /Gaston H. Halsberghe.
Author | : Gaston H. Halsberghe |
Publisher | : Brill Archive |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Cults |
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Author | : Gaston H. Halsberghe |
Publisher | : Brill Archive |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : History |
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Release | : 1972 |
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Author | : Godfrey Lowell Cabot Henderson |
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Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Cults |
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Author | : Manfred Clauss |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2019-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 147446579X |
Since its publication in Germany, Manfred Clauss's introduction to the Roman Mithras cult has become widely accepted as the most reliable, as well as the most readable, account of its elusive and fascinating subject. For the English edition the author has revised the work to take account of recent research and new archaeological discoveries. The mystery cult of Mithras first became evident in Rome towards the end of the first century AD. During the next two centuries, carried by its soldier and merchant devotees, it spread to the frontier of the western empire from Britain to Bosnia. Perhaps because of odd similarities between the cult and their own religion the early Christians energetically suppressed it, frequently constructing churches over the caves (Mithraea) in which its rituals took place. By the end of the fourth century the cult was extinct.Professor Clauss draws on the archaeological evidence from over 400 temples and their contents including over a thousand representations of ritual in sculpure and painting to seek an understanding of the nature and purpose of the cult, and what its mysteries and secret rites of initiation and sacrifice meant to its devotees. In doing so he introduces the reader to the nature of the polytheistic societies of the Roman Empire, in which relations and distinctions between gods and mortals now seem strangely close and blurred. He also considers the connections of Mithraicism with astrology, and examines how far it can be seen as a direct descendant of the ancient cult of Mitra, the Persian god of contract, cattle and light. The book combines imaginative insight with coherent argument. It is well-structured, accessibly written and extensively illustrated. Richard Gordon, the translator and himself a distinguished scholar of the subject, has provided a bibliography of further reading for anglophone readers.
Author | : Minou Reeves |
Publisher | : Garnet Publishing |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2023-10-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781902932835 |
Lucid and perfectly accessible to non-specialists, this extensively illustrated history of Mithras--the great sun god of both the Persian and Roman Empires--is amongst the most comprehensive of such studies available.available.
Author | : Roger Beck |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2006-01-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198140894 |
A study of the religious system of Mithraism, one of the 'mystery cults' popular in the Roman Empire contemporary with early Christianity. Mithraism is described from the point of view of the initiate engaging with its rich repertoire of symbols and practices.
Author | : Allen Brent |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004114203 |
Using a contra-cultural model of social interaction, this book examines the interaction between Pagan and early Christian constructions of social order focussing on the Imperial Cult as it developed, together with shared metaphysical assumptions, "pari passu" with Church Order.
Author | : Marianne Sághy |
Publisher | : Central European University Press |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2017-10-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9633862566 |
Do the terms 'pagan' and 'Christian,' 'transition from paganism to Christianity' still hold as explanatory devices to apply to the political, religious and cultural transformation experienced Empire-wise? Revisiting 'pagans' and 'Christians' in Late Antiquity has been a fertile site of scholarship in recent years: the paradigm shift in the interpretation of the relations between 'pagans' and 'Christians' replaced the old 'conflict model' with a subtler, complex approach and triggered the upsurge of new explanatory models such as multiculturalism, cohabitation, cooperation, identity, or group cohesion. This collection of essays, inscribes itself into the revisionist discussion of pagan-Christian relations over a broad territory and time-span, the Roman Empire from the fourth to the eighth century. A set of papers argues that if 'paganism' had never been fully extirpated or denied by the multiethnic educated elite that managed the Roman Empire, 'Christianity' came to be presented by the same elite as providing a way for a wider group of people to combine true philosophy and right religion. The speed with which this happened is just as remarkable as the long persistence of paganism after the sea-change of the fourth century that made Christianity the official religion of the State. For a long time afterwards, 'pagans' and 'Christians' lived 'in between' polytheistic and monotheist traditions and disputed Classical and non-Classical legacies.