De Gruyter, 2015. - 481 p. This book investigates the issue of the singularity versus the multiplicity of ancient Near Eastern deities who are known by a common first name but differentiated by their last names, or geographic epithets. It focuses primarily on the Ištar divine names in Mesopotamia, Baal names in the Levant, and Yahweh names in Israel, and it is structured around...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2013. — 333 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 175). Flourishing in the centuries around the birth of Christ, the Nabataean kingdom covered a large swathe of the north-western Arabian Peninsula and was shaped by cultural influences from the Mediterranean, Arabian and wider Semitic worlds. The Religious Life of Nabataea examines the...
Rutland, Vt.: C. E. Tuttle Co, 1963 The original draft of the present book was an outcome of the author's lectures at Harvard University during the years 1913-15, when he had the honor of occupying there the chair of Japanese Literature and Life. In response to the encouragement given by several friends at Harvard, the author tried to put the material of the lectures into book...
Routledge, 2014. — 160 p. — (Gnostica) Based in Iraq, Syria and Turkey, the Yezidi people claim their religion - a unique combination of Christian, Islamic, and historical faiths - to be the oldest in the world. Yezidi identity centres on their religion, Sharfadin, which has evolved into a highly complex pantheon of one God with many incarnations, the chief of whom is Melek...
Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt. — 1984. — T. II. — Bd. 17. — Teilbd. 4. — P. 2003-2115. I. lntroduction: Cumont's achievement - scope of present survey - historical perspective and major contributions II. Survey of research on monuments and texts A. General: the effect of twentieth-century discoveries on the overall picture of the Mysteries B. Regional survey 1....
BRILL, 2006. — 438 p. — (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 25). This volume explores the Iron Age Phrygian rock-cut monuments in Anatolia and defines their role in religion. Among other features this book questions the traditional view of the Mother goddess Kybele being the only Phrygian deity. A detailed analysis based on the monuments provides new interpretations...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2014. — 642 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 179). In Terracotta and domestic worship. Bestiary of the Graeco-Roman Egypt, Celine Boutantin proposes a new approach of terracotta produced in Egypt in the Greco-Roman period. A study taking into account the archaeological contexts allows to propose a synthesis of production workshops and to...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 217 p. — ISBN10: 0190648457, ISBN13: 978-0190648459. This book presents for the first time a full translation and analysis of a newly discovered bamboo divination manual from the fourth century BCE China, called the Stalk Divination Method (Shifa). It was used as an alternative to the better-known Zhouyi (popularly known as the I-Ching). The...
Chicago USA: The Open Publ. Co., 1903. — 270 p. English. Mithra, also spelled Mithras, Sanskrit Mitra, in ancient Indo-Iranian mythology, the god of light, whose cult spread from India in the east to as far west as Spain, Great Britain, and Germany. (See Mithraism.) The first written mention of the Vedic Mitra dates to 1400 bc. His worship spread to Persia and, after the defeat...
Actes du Congrès Internacional, Téhéran, du 1er au 8 septembre 1975. — Téhéran: Bibliothèque Pahlavi; Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1978. — (Acta Iranica 17; Première série, Actes de congrès, v. 4). — 563 p. + 32 pl. — ISBN: 9004039023. Closca L. Baluta, Le Mithriacisme dans l'épigraphie de la Dacie Per Beslow, The Routes of early Mithraism Ugo Bianchi, Mithra and the Question of Iranian...
BRILL, 2003. — 370 p. — (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 19). Subject of this book is the god Dagan (biblical Dagon), the principal deity of the Middle Euphrates region. Lluís Feliu, carefully analysing the sources from Ebla and Mari for the third millennium, from Mari for the Old Babylonian period and from Emar and Ugarit for the Middle Babylonian period, here...
Routledge, 1985. — 169 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 103). The present work is the author's English translation and expansion of her earlier work, I culti olientali in Sicilia (EPRO 31 [Leiden: Brill, 1973]). Gasparro, an authority on Greco-Roman mystery cults and gnosticism, is also known for her learned contributions to several colloquia organized under the...
Brill Academic Publishers, 1975. — 462 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 51). L'objet de ce travail est, comme on le voit, très précis, puisqu'il se borne à étude du culte d'Isis chez les femmes. Il faut dire que, depuis quelques années, les volumes concernant le culte d'Isis se sont multipliés et l'auteur reconnaît volontiers sa dette à leur égard. Mais l'aspect...
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010. — 341 p. Gods in the Desert explores the fascinating religious cultures of the ancient Near East. From the mysterious pyramids, tombs, and temples of Egypt to the powerful heroes, gods, and legends of Mesopotamia, Glenn Holland guides readers through the early religions that are the root of many of today's major faiths. Holland compares...
Ankara: Kültür Bakanlığı Yayınları, 1980. — 67 p. Kafesoglu I. Religion of the ancient Turks (in Turkish) İçindekiler: Giriş. Eski Türklerde Totemcilik var mı idi? Eski Türkler Şaman mı idiler? Eski Türk Dini.
Seoul, 2000. — 248 p. — (Korean Studies Series №10). The main stream of Korean culture after the 15th century was rooted in the soil of Confucianism. and the contemporary Korean society remains within the boundary of Confucian influence. For this reason, Korean Confucianism should be taken as the starting point for understanding the nature and characteristics of Korean society...
Madrid: Siglo XXI, 1977. — 426 pág. Indice Prefacio Prolegomenos a una historia de las religiones ¿Que es la religión? — Las creencias religiosas. — Los seres sobrehumanos. — Los mitos. — Los ritos. — Otros fenómenos religiosos, ¿En que consiste la historia de las religiones? Las religiones antiguas I. Religion egipcia Los dioses. — Los templos. Los ritos. — Los mitos y la...
Actes du colloque international organisé à Louvain-la-Neuve les 5 et 6 juin 2015 par le Centre d'Histoire des Religions Cardinal Julien Ries. — Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2017. — 196 p. — (Homo Religiosus, 17). — ISBN: 978-2-503-56885-0. Dans le présent volume le lecteur prendra connaissance des contributions de plusieurs spécialistes de l’Histoire des Religions de...
Aspects particuliers des astres dans les religions de l’Antiquité méditerranéenne. — Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2018. — 108 p. — (Homo Religiosus, 18). — ISBN: 978-2-503-57957-3. Dans cet ouvrage sont rassemblées les contributions de spécialistes belges et français, présentées lors du colloque organisé à l’Université catholique de Louvain le 3 juin 2016 par le Centre...
Erfurt: Universitat Erfurt, Mustafa Barzani Arbeitsstelle für Kurdische Studien, 2013. — 34 p. Lokman T. Ancient religions and rituals of Kurdistan (In English) A Preface. Black Wednesday and Red Wednesday: Survivals in Kurdish Tradition of rites marking Season Changes. The Şemsî and Old Religions in Kurdistan.
Walter de Gruyter, 2002. — 220 p. This book is a critical study of the role played by architecture and texts in promoting political and religious ideologies in the ancient world. It explains a palace as an element in royal propaganda seeking to influence social concepts about kingship, and a text about a temple as influencing social concepts about the relationship between God...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1891. — cxxv, 556 Hymns to the Maruts, Rudra, Vâyu, and Vâta., with a bibliographical list of the more important publications on the Rig-veda. Analysis of Rigveda hymns: I.2,6,19,37-39,43,64,85-88,114,134,165-168,170-172; II.33,34; V.52-61.87; VI.66,74; VII.46,56-59; VIII.7,20,94; X.77,78,121,168,176
De Gruyter, 2015. - 553 p. Addressing the relationship between religion and ideology, and drawing on a range of literary, ritual, and visual sources, this book reconstructs the cultural discourse of Assyria from the third through the first millennium BCE. Ideology is delineated here as a subdiscourse of religion rather than as an independent category, anchoring it firmly within...
London: Routledge, 2017. — 240 p., 17 b/w illus. — (Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World series). “Ishtar is, without doubt, one of the most complex and baffling of the many gods of antiquity. Yet Louise Pryke has achieved something quite remarkable here in synthesising the multivalence of the goddess’s deeds and personas into a coherent and manageable whole. Full of good...
The corpus of Aramaic incantation bowls from Sasanian Mesopotamia is perhaps the most important source we have for studying the everyday beliefs and practices of the Jewish, Christian, Mandaean, Manichaean, Zoroastrian and Pagan communities on the eve of the Islamic conquests. The bowls are from the Schøyen Collection, which has some 650 texts in different varieties of Aramaic:...
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 192 p. This book is a history of religious life in the Ancient Near East from the beginnings of agriculture to Alexander the Great’s invasion in the 300s BCE. Daniel C. Snell traces key developments in the history, daily life, and religious beliefs of the people of Ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, Israel, and Iran. His research investigates the...
CSCO Subsidia. — Louvain, 1958. — 342 p. Arthur Voobus, the pioneering scholar of much Eastern monasticism, wrote that ‘ideas have legs’.This book has demonstrated how ideas about abstention from food, drink, sleep, and wealth, could travel between religions as well as between far distant places in the Ancient world.
Bucureşti: Editura Agape. — 160 p. Woodrow R. E. The Secret Religion of Babylon (in Romanian) Cuprins: Babilon — sursa falsei religii. Închinarea adusă mamei şi copilului. Închinarea adusă Mariei. Sfinţi, zilele sfinţilor şi simboluri. Obeliscuri, temple şi turnuri. Este crucea un simbol creştin? Constantin şi crucea. Relicvele bisericii romano-catolice. Înşelătorie religioasă....
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