The mind of Mithraists : historical and cognitive studies in the Roman cult of Mithras /
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
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- Introduction 1. Roman Mithraism and Christianity 2. Reflections on the Mithraic Tauroctony as Cult Scene 3. The Roman Cult of Mithras: A Cognitive Perspective 4. Ritual Competence and Mithraic Ritual 5. The Ecology of Threat Detection and Precautionary Response from the Perspectives of Evolutionary Psychology and Historiography: The Case of the Roman Cults of Mithras 6. Landscape and Mindscape in the Roman Cult of Mithras 7. Cult Migration, Social Formation, and Religious Identity in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: The Curious Case of Roman Mithraism 8. The Amor and Psyche Relief in the Mithraeum of Capua Vetere: An Exceptional Case of the Graeco-Roman Syncretism or an Ordinary Instance of Human Cognition? 9. The (Surprising Absence of A) Mithras Cult in Egypt Bibliography Index.