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Ancient Mystery Cults

Paperback • 1987 • English

Ancient Mystery Cults

By Walter Burkert

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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 disseminat...Show more

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ISBN

9780674033870

Published year

1987

Language

English

Original title

Ancient Mystery Cults

Format

Paperback

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