Author: George Stanley Faber
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Languages : en
Pages : 478

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Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385304776
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 882

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Author: Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute. Library
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Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 888

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Author: Colin Kidd
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139425722
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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Inspired by debates among political scientists over the strength and depth of the pre-modern roots of nationalism, this study attempts to gauge the status of ethnic identities in an era whose dominant loyalties and modes of political argument were confessional, institutional and juridical. Colin Kidd's point of departure is the widely shared orthodox belief that the whole world had been peopled by the offspring of Noah. In addition, Kidd probes inconsistencies in national myths of origin and ancient constitutional claims, and considers points of contact which existed in the early modern era between ethnic identities which are now viewed as antithetical, including those of Celts and Saxons. He also argues that Gothicism qualified the notorious Francophobia of eighteenth-century Britons. A wide-ranging example of the new British history, this study draws upon evidence from England, Scotland, Ireland and America, while remaining alert to European comparisons and influences.

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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 876

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Author: Detroit Public Library
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Author: University of Edinburgh. Theological Library
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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Author: Jan N. Bremmer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110376997
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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The ancient Mysteries have long attracted the interest of scholars, an interest that goes back at least to the time of the Reformation. After a period of interest around the turn of the twentieth century, recent decades have seen an important study of Walter Burkert (1987). Yet his thematic approach makes it hard to see how the actual initiation into the Mysteries took place. To do precisely that is the aim of this book. It gives a ‘thick description’ of the major Mysteries, not only of the famous Eleusinian Mysteries, but also those located at the interface of Greece and Anatolia: the Mysteries of Samothrace, Imbros and Lemnos as well as those of the Corybants. It then proceeds to look at the Orphic-Bacchic Mysteries, which have become increasingly better understood due to the many discoveries of new texts in the recent times. Having looked at classical Greece we move on to the Roman Empire, where we study not only the lesser Mysteries, which we know especially from Pausanias, but also the new ones of Isis and Mithras. We conclude our book with a discussion of the possible influence of the Mysteries on emerging Christianity. Its detailed references and up-to-date bibliography will make this book indispensable for any scholar interested in the Mysteries and ancient religion, but also for those scholars who work on initiation or esoteric rituals, which were often inspired by the ancient Mysteries.

Author: Peter Joseph Gillett
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Languages : en
Pages : 486

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Author: Baltimore Peabody inst, libr
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Languages : en
Pages : 888

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