Mithraïsme et émancipation. Anthropologie sociale et culturelle des mouvements populaires en Iran : au VIIIe, IXe et du XIVe au début du XVIe siècle
Jusqu'à présent, le mithraïsme était considéré comme un culte appartenant à un passé lointain n'ayant guère laissé de traces. L'auteur met en lumière la continuité du mithraïsme à l'époque islamique, son rôle primordial dans l'animation et la continuité des mouvements populaires de …
Books on Mithras
A TNM selection of books on Mithras, its cult, and related subjects.
The Cult of Mithras in the Roman Provinces of Gaul
On ne saurait qu'applaudir à l'idée qu'a eue V. J. Walters de faire le point des découvertes mithriaques en Gaule romaine. Son projet reste dominé par le découpage administratif des « Roman provinces of Gaul ». Mais compte tenu de l'ensemble que ce…
The Mind of Mithraists. Historical and Cognitive Studies in the Roman Cult of Mithras
The Roman cult of Mithras was the most widely-dispersed and densely-distributed cult throughout the expanse of the Roman Empire from the end of the first until the fourth century AD, rivaling the early growth and development of Christianity during the sam…
Dossier Mithra. La alternativa espiritual del culto legionario
Tras reunir, traducir y editar, los textos incluidos en este dossier, confesamos que el conjunto nos ha impresionado particularmente. Hasta ese momento, creíamos sabíamos solamente que el mithraismo era una forma de paganismo, caracterizado -como otr…
The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries. Cosmology & Salvation in the Ancient World
In the centuries following the conquests of Alexander the Great the dramatic unification of the Mediterranean world created exceptionally fertile soil for the growth of new religions. Christianity, for example, was one of the innovative religious movement…
The Roman Cult of Mithras. The God and His Mysteries
The Mithras cult first became evident in Rome towards the end of the first century AD. During the next two centuries, it spread to the frontiers of the Western empire. Energetically suppressed by the early Christians, who frequently constructed their chur…
Symbols of transformation. An analysis of the prelude to a case of schizophrenia
Symbols of Transformation is Volume 5 in The Collected Works of C.G. Jung, a series of books published by Princeton University Press in the U.S. and Routledge & Kegan Paul in the U.K. It is a complete revision of Psychology of the Unconscious (1911–12)…
The Mithraic Prophecy
Why did the Romans worship a Persian god? This book presents a new reading of the Mithraic iconography taking into account that the cult had a prophecy. It is likely that the Mithraic reliefs alluded to it and the scenes in the upper panels depict the Gol…
Le Phallus
It is only when the penis (upastha) stands up straight, that it emits semen, the source of life. It is then called the phallus (lingam) and has been considered, since earliest prehistory the image of the creative principle, a symbol of the process by whic…
Arcanum
