
The Mind of Mithraists
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The unifying theme throughout is an investigation of the 'mind' of those engaged in the cult practices of this widespread ancient religion. These investigations represent traditional historical methods as well as more recent studies employing the insights of the cognitive sciences, demonstrating that cognitive historiography is a valuable methodological tool.
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1. Roman Mithraism and Christianity
2. Reflections on the Mithraic Tauroctony as Cult Scene
3. The Roman Cult of Mithras: A Cognitive Perspective
4. Ritual Competence and Mithraic Ritual
5. The Ecology of Threat Detection and Precautionary Response from the Perspectives of Evolutionary Psychology and Historiography: The Case of the Roman Cults of Mithras
6. Landscape and Mindscape in the Roman Cult of Mithras
7. Cult Migration, Social Formation, and Religious Identity in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: The Curious Case of Roman Mithraism
8. The Amor and Psyche Relief in the Mithraeum of Capua Vetere: An Exceptional Case of the Graeco-Roman Syncretism or an Ordinary Instance of Human Cognition?
9. The (Surprising Absence of A) Mithras Cult in Egypt
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