Romanising oriental Gods : : Myth, Salvation, and Ethics in the Cults of Cybele, Isis and Mithras / / by Jaime Alvar ; translator and editor, Richard Gordon.
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 a...
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Alvar Ezquerra, Jaime. Romanising oriental Gods : Myth, Salvation, and Ethics in the Cults of Cybele, Isis and Mithras / by Jaime Alvar ; translator and editor, Richard Gordon. Leiden ; New York : Brill, 2008. 1 online resource (506 p.) text txt computer c online resource cr Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, 0927-7633 ; v. 165 Description based upon print version of record. English Includes bibliographical references (p. 423-444) and indexes. 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. 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) Cult. Serapis (Egyptian deity) Cult. Mithras (Zoroastrian deity) Cult. Rome Religion. Isis (Egyptian deity) Cult. Gordon, R. L. (Richard Lindsay) Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 165. |
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