Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xx, 486 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9789047441847
Series Statement:
Religions in the Graeco-Roman world volume 165
Content:
Preliminary Materials /J. Alvar Ezquerra -- Chapter One. Religion, Cult And Mystery /J. Alvar Ezquerra -- Chapter Two. Systems Of Belief /J. Alvar Ezquerra -- Chapter Three. Systems Of Value /J. Alvar Ezquerra -- Chapter Four. The Ritual Systems /J. Alvar Ezquerra -- Chapter Five. The Oriental Cults And Christianity /J. Alvar Ezquerra -- Bibliography /J. Alvar Ezquerra -- Plates /J. Alvar Ezquerra -- Index /J. Alvar Ezquerra.
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 423-444) and indexes
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004132931
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Alvar Ezquerra, Jaime, 1955 - Romanising oriental Gods Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2008 ISBN 9789004132931
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
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Ancient Studies
Keywords:
Antike
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Gott
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Alter Orient
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Romanisierung
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Kybele Göttin
;
Kult
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Mithraskult
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Isiskult
DOI:
10.1163/ej.9789004132931.i-486
Author information:
Gordon, Richard L. 1943-
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