Author: Vacher BurchPublisher:
ISBN: 9781558181250
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
The Orphic Mysteries in Syria and Early Christianity
Author: Vacher BurchPublisher:
ISBN: 9781558181250
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
The Quest
Author: George Robert Stow MeadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
The Quest
Author: The Evolution of Early Christianity
Author: Shirley Jackson CasePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Initiation into the Mysteries of the Ancient World
Author: Jan N. BremmerPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110376997
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The ancient Mysteries have long attracted the interest of scholars, an interest that goes back at least to the time of the Reformation. After a period of interest around the turn of the twentieth century, recent decades have seen an important study of Walter Burkert (1987). Yet his thematic approach makes it hard to see how the actual initiation into the Mysteries took place. To do precisely that is the aim of this book. It gives a ‘thick description’ of the major Mysteries, not only of the famous Eleusinian Mysteries, but also those located at the interface of Greece and Anatolia: the Mysteries of Samothrace, Imbros and Lemnos as well as those of the Corybants. It then proceeds to look at the Orphic-Bacchic Mysteries, which have become increasingly better understood due to the many discoveries of new texts in the recent times. Having looked at classical Greece we move on to the Roman Empire, where we study not only the lesser Mysteries, which we know especially from Pausanias, but also the new ones of Isis and Mithras. We conclude our book with a discussion of the possible influence of the Mysteries on emerging Christianity. Its detailed references and up-to-date bibliography will make this book indispensable for any scholar interested in the Mysteries and ancient religion, but also for those scholars who work on initiation or esoteric rituals, which were often inspired by the ancient Mysteries.
The Mystery-religions and Christianity
Author: Samuel AngusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity and other religions
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The Mystery-Religions
Author: S. AngusPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486143511
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Classic study explores the Eleusinian mysteries of ancient Greece; Asiatic cults of Cybele, the Magna Mater, and Attis; Dionysian groups; Orphics; Egyptian devotees of Isis and Osiris; Mithraism; and others.
The Rise and Fall of the Afterlife
Author: Jan N. BremmerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134768222
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Belief in the afterlife is still very much alive in Western civilisation, even though the truth of its existence is no longer universally accepted. Surprisingly, however, heaven, hell and the immortal soul were all ideas which arrived relatively late in the ancient world. Originally Greece and Israel - the cultures that gave us Christianity - had only the vaguest ideas of an afterlife. So where did these concepts come from and why did they develop? In this fascinating, learned, but highly readable book, Jan N. Bremmer - one of the foremost authorities on ancient religion - takes a fresh look at the major developments in the Western imagination of the afterlife, from the ancient Greeks to the modern near-death experience.
Occult Review
Author: The Greco-Roman World of the New Testament Era
Author: James S. JeffersPublisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830878025
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
James S. Jeffers provides an informative tour of the various facets of the Roman world--class and status, family and community, work and leisure, religion and organization, city and country, law and government, death and taxes, and the events of Roman history.