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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Auteur principal: Martin, Luther H. 1937- (Auteur)
Type de support: Imprimé Livre
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: London [u.a.] Bloomsbury Academic 2015
Dans:Année: 2015
Édition:1. publ.
Collection/Revue:Scientific studies of religion : inquiry and explanation
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Culte de Mithra
RelBib Classification:BE Religion gréco-romaine
Sujets non-standardisés:B Cognition and culture
B Mithraism Rome
B Mithraism
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Résumé: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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ISBN:1472584198