Excellent read for academics, but not accessible for non experts.

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	• The Religion of the Mithras Cult in the Roman Empire: Mysteries of the Unconquered Sun Roger Beck Oxford University Press, USA, 2007 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 1 review view larger image
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Excellent read for academics, but not accessible for non experts.

An excellent book on understanding the 3D structure of Mithraeums. However, this is a highly academic and technical book, and is aimed at experts in the field.

I read this in the same time when I was reading (Mithras Reader Vol1 An academic and religious journal of Greek, Roman, and Persian Studies) and found them to complement each other very well.

This volume is a study of the religious system of Mithraism, one of the "mystery cults" popular in the Roman Empire contemporary with early Christianity. Roger Beck describes Mithraism from the point of view of the initiate engaging with the religion and its rich symbolic system in thought, word, ritual action, and cult life. He employs the methods of anthropology of religion and the new cognitive science of religion to explore in detail the semiotics of the Mysteries' astral symbolism, which has been the principal subject of his many previous publications on the cult.

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