The Religion of the Mithras Cult in the Roman Empire
Mysteries of the Unconquered Sun
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Product details:
- Edition number New ed
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 8 March 2007
- ISBN 9780199216130
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 234x157x17 mm
- Weight 469 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 17 figures 0
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Short description:
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.
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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.
Given Beck's credentials and his reputation as an erudite scholar of the enigmatic mysteries of Mithras, one might rightly expect that this book would break new ground. Beck does not disappoint. The book is engagingly written and is an exemplar of how scholarship can be pursued in a fair, engaging manner.
Table of Contents:
Introduction to interpreting the mysteries: old ways, new ways
Old ways: the reconstruction of Mithraic doctrine from iconography
The problem of referents: interpretation with reference to what?
Doctrine redefined
Transition: from old ways to new ways
The Mithraic mysteries as symbol system. 1. Introduction and comparisons
Cognition and representation
The Mithraic mysteries as symbol system. 2. The mithraeum
Star-talk: the symbols of the Mithraic mysteries as language signs
The Mithraic mysteries as symbol system. 3. The tauroctony
Excursus
