Ancient Mystery Cults Paperback / softback
by Walter Burkert
Part of the Carl Newell Jackson Lectures series
Paperback / softback
Description
The foremost historian of Greek religion provides the first comprehensive, comparative study of a little-known aspect of ancient religious beliefs and practices.
Secret mystery cults flourished within the larger culture of the public religion of Greece and Rome for roughly a thousand years.
This book is neither a history nor a survey but a comparative phenomenology, concentrating on five major cults.
In defining the mysteries and describing their rituals, membership, organization, and dissemination, Walter Burkert displays the remarkable erudition we have come to expect of him; he also shows great sensitivity and sympathy in interpreting the experiences and motivations of the devotees.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:192 pages, 2 line illustrations, 10 halftones
- Publisher:Harvard University Press
- Publication Date:15/10/1989
- Category:
- ISBN:9780674033870
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:192 pages, 2 line illustrations, 10 halftones
- Publisher:Harvard University Press
- Publication Date:15/10/1989
- Category:
- ISBN:9780674033870
