An edition of The religion of the Mithras cult in the Roman Empire
(2006)
The religion of the Mithras cult in the Roman Empire
mysteries of the unconquered sun
by Beck, Roger
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The religion of the Mithras cult in the Roman Empire: mysteries of the unconquered sun
2006, Oxford University Press, Oxford University Press, USA
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Table of Contents
Introduction to interpreting the mysteries : old ways, new ways
An agenda
A word on ontology
Template for a redescription of the mithraic mysteries
On comparisons
On cognition
Synchronic versus diachronic : structure and meaning versus historic cause and effect : interpretation versus explanation
Conclusion
Old ways : the reconstruction of mithraic doctrine from iconography
A gateway to an interpretation of the mysteries : porphyry, de antro nympharum on the form and function of the mithraeum
The traditional route : from the iconography of the monuments to the myth of mithras to the beliefs of mithraists
The merits and achievements of the traditional heuristic procedure
The shortcomings of the traditional heuristic procedure
Appendix: Some remaining methodological problems for the explication of the mithras myth as represented on the figured monuments
The problem of referents : interpretation with reference to what
Iconography and the problem of referents
Referents in the surrounding culture
Iranian referents
Celestial (astronomicalastrological) referents
Conclusion
Doctrine redefined
Back to porphyry, de antro
Induction into a mystery : the doctrinal misconstruction of de antro
Teaching versus enacting the descent and departure of souls : the commonsensical answer
An expectation of appropriate behaviour
Reason for the wise, symbols for the vulgar
Mithraic doctrine and its stakeholders : various views
Doctrine and belief : the Christian faith paradigm
Mithraic doctrine : three main issues
Generalizing about mithraic doctrine from unusual monuments
What do we mean by doctrine in the context of the mithraic mysteries? : an array of answers
Doctrine and the ordinary initiate
Conclusion
Transition : from old ways to new ways
The mithraic mysteries as symbol system : introduction and comparisons
Religion as a system of symbols : an anthropological approach
Are Geertzian description and interpretation applicable to the symbol system of the mithraic mysteries?
Yes, Geertzian description and interpretation are possible, provided we begin not with the tauroctony but with the mithraeum and the grade structure
A culture within a culture : mithraism as a subsystem within the cultural system of graecoroman paganism : the hermeneutic implications
The symbol complex of the grade hierarchy
A modern comparator : the symbol system of the chamulas
The construction of space in mithraic and chamula cultures
Mithraisms second axiom : harmony of tension in opposition
Appendix: On Porphyrys de antro nympharum as a reliable source of data on the mithraic mysteries
Cognition and representation
The cognitive approach : ontogeneticphylogenetic versus cultural
Gods in mind : cognition and the representation of supernatural beings
Negotiating representations
Reintegrating the wise and the vulgar
Appendix: Comprehending the pantomime : Lucian, on the dance
The mithraic mysteries as symbol system : the mithraeum
The symbol complex of the mithraeum as image of the universe
The blueprint for the mithraeum
To represent is to be
The blueprint continued : the planets
An improved reconstruction
Symbols, representations, and startalk
The view from the benches : analogies of world view and ethos to scipios dream
The chamula church
Other images of the universe in antiquity : the pantheon, neros domus aurea, varros aviary, the circus
Other images of the universe in antiquity : orreries and the antikythera mechanism, the sundial
The mithraeum as symbolic instrument for inducting the initiates into a mystery of the descent of souls and their exit back out againwith some modern comparisons
To experience, to surmise, and to represent : dios twelfth (olympic) oration
Religious experience as modelled by biogenetic structuralism and neurotheology
The cognized environment : the mithraeum as material representation of the initiates cognized universe
The cognized universe and celestial navigation : the case of the indigo bunting
Conclusion
Startalk : the symbols of the mithraic mysteries as language signs
Introduction : startalk
Mithraic iconography as un langage dchiffrer (R. Turcan)
Can symbols function as language signs? : the question as posed in cultural anthropology
Crossing sperbers bar : the case for mithraic astral symbols as language signs
Startalk : ancient views concerning its speakers, discourses, semiotics, and semantics
Origens view : heavenly writings and their angelic readers
Augustines view : startalk as a demonic language contract
Origen again : the demonic misconstruction of startalk
Stars talking theology : the heretical interpreters of Aratus as reported by Hippolytus (refutatio 4.4650)
Make believe startalk : Zeno of Veronas baptismal interpretation of the zodiac
Rolling up the scroll : Maximus Confessor and the end of history.
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