TY - BOOK ID - 77933875 TI - Romanising oriental Gods AU - Alvar Ezquerra, Jaime AU - Gordon, R L PY - 2008 SN - 1282396315 9786612396311 9047441842 9789047441847 9789004132931 9004132937 PB - Leiden New York DB - UniCat KW - Cybele (Goddess) KW - Serapis (Egyptian deity) KW - Mithras (Zoroastrian deity) KW - Mithra (Zoroastrian deity) KW - Zoroastrian gods KW - Mithraism KW - Cult. KW - Isis KW - Aset KW - Eset KW - Iset KW - İsida KW - Isidi KW - Izida KW - Iziso KW - Iside KW - Izidė KW - Ízisz KW - Izyda KW - 伊西斯 KW - Yi xi si KW - イシス KW - Ishisu KW - איזיס KW - 이시스 KW - Isiseu KW - Исида KW - Изида KW - Ісіда KW - إيزيس KW - Īzīs KW - Ἴσις KW - Rome KW - Religion. KW - Cybele (Goddess) - Cult KW - Attis (God) - Cult KW - Isis (Egyptian deity) - Cult KW - Serapis (Egyptian deity) - Cult KW - Mithras (Zoroastrian deity) - Cult KW - Rome - Religion KW - Attis (God) KW - Isis (Egyptian deity) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77933875 AB - The traditional grand narrative correlating the decline of Graeco-Roman religion with the rise of Christianity has been under pressure for three decades. This book argues that the alternative accounts now emerging significantly underestimate the role of three major cults, of Cybele and Attis, Isis and Serapis, and Mithras. Although their differences are plain, these cults present sufficient common features to justify their being taken typologically as a group. All were selective adaptations of much older cults of the Fertile Crescent. It was their relative sophistication, their combination of the imaginative power of unfamiliar myth with distinctive ritual performance and ethical seriousness, that enabled them both to focus and to articulate a sense of the autonomy of religion from the socio-political order, a sense they shared with Early Christianity. The notion of 'mystery' was central to their ability to navigate the Weberian shift from ritualist to ethical salvation. ER -