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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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This volume is 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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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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This volume is 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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A study of the 'religion' of an ancient cult may seem to entail an artificial, even perverse, distinction between the cult's religion and the cult itself, as if 'religion' were somehow the cream to be skimmed from the surface of the institutional milk. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
universal daily motion, initiate apprehends, ideal mithraeum, southern paranatellonta, helicoidal model, celestial text, attention association area, cognized environment, ultimate sacred postulates, anaphoric clock, descriptive template, proportionate arrangement, posterior superior parietal lobe, biogenetic structuralism, tertiary association areas, interpreting the mysteries, astral symbolism, astral symbols, ideal month, mystery hall, planetary houses, cognitive operators, gateway text, figured monuments, lunar nodes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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A study of the 'religion' of an ancient cult may seem to entail an artificial, even perverse, distinction between the cult's religion and the cult itself, as if 'religion' were somehow the cream to be skimmed from the surface of the institutional milk. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
universal daily motion, initiate apprehends, ideal mithraeum, southern paranatellonta, helicoidal model, celestial text, attention association area, cognized environment, ultimate sacred postulates, anaphoric clock, descriptive template, proportionate arrangement, posterior superior parietal lobe, biogenetic structuralism, tertiary association areas, interpreting the mysteries, astral symbolism, astral symbols, ideal month, mystery hall, planetary houses, cognitive operators, gateway text, figured monuments, lunar nodes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Doctrine Redefined, Canis Minor, Dan Sperber, Canis Major, Sette Sfere, Antiochus of Athens, Contra Celsum, Nemrud Dagh, Diogenes Laertius, Mithraic Father, Robert Turcan, Sfameni Gasparro, Mithraic Lions, Richard Gordon, Indigo Bunting, Old Testament, Sol Mithras, Solar Temple, Clifford Geertz, Roman Mithraism, Claudius Balbillus, David Ulansey, Franz Cumont, Lactantius Placidus, Mithraie Mysteries New!
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