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In The Cult of Mithras in Late Antiquity David Walsh explores how the cult of Mithras developed across the Third and 4th centuries A.D. and why by the early 5th century the cult had completely disappeared. Contrary to the traditional narrative that the cult was violently persecuted out of existence by Christians, Walsh demonstrates that the cult’s decline was a far more gradual process that resulted from a variety of factors. He also challenges the popular image of the cult as a monolithic entity, highlighting how by the 4th century Mithras had come to mean different things to different people in different places.
Mithras (Zoroastrian deity) --- Mithraism --- Cult --- Cult. --- Mithraism. --- Mithraskult. --- Zoroastrianism --- Mithra (Zoroastrian deity) --- Zoroastrian gods --- Mithras (Zoroastrian deity) - Cult
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Mitra es un dios de origen iranio que sufre una verdadera metamorfosis entre finales de época helenística y el Imperio Romano. En Anatolia o en Roma adquiere una organización y contenidos cultuales que hacen de él un dios universal, útil para los propósitos ecuménicos del Imperio. Jaime Alvar hace en este libro un estudio exhaustivo de las condiciones en las que se produce su introducción en Hispania, a finales del siglo I d.C., en un momento sorprendentemente prematuro en relación con otras regiones del occidente latino. Se interesa por las circunstancias de su recepción y normalización en los ámbitos urbanos de las provincias hispanas; atiende a las características sociales y económicas de sus seguidores y analiza las razones por las que se desvanece en un periodo igualmente precoz, lo que le permite negar la idea asumida de que Mitra fue vencido por Cristo, al menos no en Hispania. Todas esas preocupaciones se resuelven en este estudio en el marco de las más avanzadas corrientes de interpretación de los fenómenos religiosos en el mundo antiguo. Para sustentar su estudio, ofrece Alvar un catálogo razonado de los mithriaca, es decir todos los testimonios disponibles sobre el culto de Mitra en Hispania. Se trata del catálogo más completo y documentado de cuantos se han elaborado sobre el tema, lo que garantiza que será una obra de referencia durante mucho tiempo.
Mithras (Zoroastrian deity) --- Mithraism --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Cult --- Mithraïsme. --- Fouilles archéologiques --- Religion romaine. --- Mithra --- Culte --- Espagne --- Portugal --- Mithras (Zoroastrian deity) - Cult --- Mithraism - Spain --- Excavations (Archaeology) - Spain
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"This is the first full cognitive history of an ancient religious practice. In this ground-breaking study on one of the most intriguing and mysterious cults, Olympia Panagiotidou with Roger Beck, shows how cognitive historiography can supplement our historical knowledge and deepen our understanding of past cultural phenomena. The cult of the sun god Mithras, which spread widely across the Graeco-Roman world at the same time as other 'mystery cults', offered to its devotees certain images and assumptions about reality. Initiation into the mysteries of Mithras and participation in the life of the cult significantly affected and transformed the ways in which the initiated perceived themselves, the world and their position within it. The cult's major ideas were conveyed mainly through its major symbolic complexes. The ancient written testimonies and other records are not adequate to establish a definitive reconstruction of Mithraic theologies and the meaning of its complex symbolic structures"--Back cover.
11.17 Roman religion. --- Mithraism. --- Mithraskult. --- Religion. --- Rome (Empire). --- Rome --- Mithraism --- Cognition et culture --- Mithra (divinité zoroastrienne) --- Culte --- Mysteries, Religious --- Mithras (Zoroastrian deity) --- Cult --- Religion --- Cult. --- Mysteries, Religious - Rome --- Mithras (Zoroastrian deity) - Cult --- Rome - Religion
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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.
Cybele (Goddess) --- Serapis (Egyptian deity) --- Mithras (Zoroastrian deity) --- Mithra (Zoroastrian deity) --- Zoroastrian gods --- Mithraism --- Cult. --- Isis --- Aset --- Eset --- Iset --- İsida --- Isidi --- Izida --- Iziso --- Iside --- Izidė --- Ízisz --- Izyda --- 伊西斯 --- Yi xi si --- イシス --- Ishisu --- איזיס --- 이시스 --- Isiseu --- Исида --- Изида --- Ісіда --- إيزيس --- Īzīs --- Ἴσις --- Rome --- Religion. --- Cybele (Goddess) - Cult --- Attis (God) - Cult --- Isis (Egyptian deity) - Cult --- Serapis (Egyptian deity) - Cult --- Mithras (Zoroastrian deity) - Cult --- Rome - Religion --- Attis (God) --- Isis (Egyptian deity)
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