Ancient Mystery Cults

Revised Auflage
ISBN: 978-0-674-03387-0
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 263 g

Reihe: Carl Newell Jackson Lectures

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 great sensitivity and sympathy in interpreting the experiences and motivations of the devotees.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burkert, Walter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte Religionen der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Über Autor(innen)

Burkert, Walter
Walter Burkert was Professor Emeritus of Classics, University of Zurich.