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ANCIENT MYSTERY CULTS by Burkert, Walter - 1987
by Burkert, Walter
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ANCIENT MYSTERY CULTS
by Burkert, Walter
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Harvard University Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1987. Hardcover. 0674033868 . Scholar's name to ffep (Bonnie Maclachlan [née Ward]). Dustjacket has a few small tears with minor edgewear. ; Carl Newell Jackson Lectures; 192 pages; The foremost historian of Greek religion providers 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 sensitivity and sympathy in interpreting the experiences and motivations of the devotees. Contents: Personal Needs in This Life and After Death; Organizations and Identities; Theologia and Mysteries : Myth, Allegory and Platonism; The Extraordinary Experience .
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- Book Condition Used - Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
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- ISBN 10 0674033868
- ISBN 13 9780674033863
- Publisher Harvard University Press
- Date Published 1987
- Keywords 0674033868, Religion & Spirituality, Cults & Demonism, Occult, Comparative Religion, Religious Studies, Paganism, Mystery Religions, Classical Greek & Roman
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Ancient Mystery Cults (Carl Newell Jackson Lectures)
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Harvard University Press. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1987. Hardcover. 0674033868 . Scholar's name to ffep (D. Gerber). Dustjacket has waviness to rear panel with minor shelfwear. ; Carl Newell Jackson Lectures; 192 pages; The foremost historian of Greek religion providers 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 sensitivity and sympathy in interpreting the experiences and motivations of the devotees. Contents: Personal Needs in This Life and After Death; Organizations and…
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