Ancient Mystery Cults (Carl Newell Jackson Lectures)
by Walter Burkert
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Harvard University Press, 1989. Paperback. New. New softcover in glossy printed wraps. 8vo. (6 x 9 inches) Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. Includes author's notes, bibliography, index, and figures. 181 pp.
Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. 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 sensitivity and sympathy in interpreting the experiences and motivations of the devotees.
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- The Anthropologists Closet (US)
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- 200646
- Title
- Ancient Mystery Cults (Carl Newell Jackson Lectures)
- Author
- Walter Burkert
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0674033876
- ISBN 13
- 9780674033870
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cumbreland, Rhode Island, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1989
- Pages
- 181
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Greek religion, Cults, Secret societies, Carl Newell Jackson Lectures, Ancient history, Greece,
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- Greece;
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