Ancient mystery cults

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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.

• ISBN bar code 9780674033870 ξ1 registered May 06 2012
  
• ISBN bar code 9780674033870 ξ2 registered May 06 2012
  
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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 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.

^ Walter Burkert (1987). Ancient mystery cults, Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674033870 (revised Oct 2015)
^ Walter Burkert (1987). Ancient mystery cults, Harvard University Press. Wiki. ISBN 9780674033870 (revised May 2012)