Olympia Panagiotidou with Roger Beck, The Roman Mithras Cult: A Cognitive Approach

Authors

  • Hugh Bowden King's College London

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/jch.36124

Keywords:

Mithraism, Cognitive Science of Religion, Greek religion

Abstract

Olympia Panagiotidou with Roger Beck, The Roman Mithras Cult: A Cognitive Approach (London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2017). XI + 226 pp. £85.00 (hbk). ISBN 978-1-4725-6741-3.

Author Biography

  • Hugh Bowden, King's College London

    My first degree was in Classics (Oxford 1984) and my DPhil (Oxford 1990) examined religion in the Greek historian Herodotus. I have been teaching at King's since 1989.

References

Beck, Roger. 2006. The Religion of the Mithras Cult in the Roman Empire: Mysteries of the Unconquered Sun. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Clauss, Manfred. 2000. The Roman Cult of Mithras: The God and his Mysteries, trans. Richard Gordon. New York: Routledge.

Clauss, Manfred. 2012. Mithras: Kult und Mysterium. Darmstadt: Philipp von Zabern Verlag.

Czachesz, István. 2017. Cognitive Science & the New Testament: A New Approach to Early Christian Research. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198779865.001.0001

Czachesz, István, and Risto Uro, eds. 2014. Mind, Morality and Magic: Cognitive Science Approaches in Biblical Studies. London and New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315728933

Uro, Risto. 2016. Ritual and Christian Beginnings: A Socio-Cognitive Analysis. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199661176.001.0001

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Published

2018-12-04

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2017): Book Review Symposium: Jennifer Larson's 'Understanding Greek Religion', 2016

Section

Book Reviews

How to Cite

Bowden, H. (2018). Olympia Panagiotidou with Roger Beck, The Roman Mithras Cult: A Cognitive Approach. Journal of Cognitive Historiography, 4(1), 100-102. https://doi.org/10.1558/jch.36124