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This volume is a study of the religious system of Mithraism, one of the "mystery cults" popular in the Roman Empire contemporary with early Christianity. Roger Beck describes Mithraism from the point of view of the initiate engaging with the religion and its rich symbolic system in thought, word, ritual action, and cult life. He employs the methods of anthropology of religion and the new cognitive science of religion to explore in detail the semiotics of the Mysteries' astral symbolism, which has been the principal subject of his many previous publications on the cult.
Roger Beck is Professor Emeritus, at the University of Toronto.
This volume is a study of the religious system of Mithraism, one of the "mystery cults" popular in the Roman Empire contemporary with early Christianity. Roger Beck describes Mithraism from the point of view of the initiate engaging with the religion and its rich symbolic system in thought, word, ritual action, and cult life. He employs the methods of anthropology of religion and the new cognitive science of religion to explore in detail the semiotics of the Mysteries' astral symbolism, which has been the principal subject of his many previous publications on the cult.
Roger Beck is Professor Emeritus, at the University of Toronto.
1: Introduction to interpreting the mysteries: old ways, new
ways
2: Old ways: the reconstruction of Mithraic doctrine from
iconography
3: The problem of referents: interpretation with reference to
what?
4: Doctrine redefined
Transition: from old ways to new ways
5: The Mithraic mysteries as symbol system. 1. Introduction and
comparisons
6: Cognition and representation
7: The Mithraic mysteries as symbol system. 2. The mithraeum
8: Star-talk: the symbols of the Mithraic mysteries as language
signs
9: The Mithraic mysteries as symbol system. 3. The tauroctony
10: Excursus
Conclusions:
Roger Beck is Professor Emeritus, at the University of Toronto.
In learned and fascinationg detail, he explains the mithraeum as both symbolically and actually as a representation of the universe. Inga Mantle, The Journal of Classics Teaching
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