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1982 Carl Newell Jackson Lecture at Harvard. The foremost historian of Greek religion providers 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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Antike Mysterien, Walter Burkert
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- Released
- 1991
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- Title
- Antike Mysterien
- Subtitle
- Funktionen und Gehalt
- Language
- German
- Authors
- Walter Burkert
- Publisher
- C.H. Beck
- Released
- 1991
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 152
- ISBN10
- 3406342590
- ISBN13
- 9783406342592
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Religious Topics, Religion, Classics, Mythology, Ancient History, Mysterious, Mysteries, Mysticism
- Description
- 1982 Carl Newell Jackson Lecture at Harvard. The foremost historian of Greek religion providers 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.