Romanising Oriental Gods: Myth, Salvation and Ethics in the Cults of Cybele, Isis and Mithras Tapa dura - 2008
de Jaime Alvar
Descripción de contraportada
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.
Detalles
- Título Romanising Oriental Gods: Myth, Salvation and Ethics in the Cults of Cybele, Isis and Mithras
- Autor Jaime Alvar
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Páginas 508
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma GRC
- Editorial Brill
- Fecha de publicación 2008-11
- Ilustrado Sí
- Features Bilingual, Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9789004132931 / 9004132937
- Peso 2.15 libras (0.98 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.6 x 6.5 x 1.2 pulgadas (24.38 x 16.51 x 3.05 cm)
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2008015353
- Dewey Decimal Code 200.937
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