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The cult of Isis among women in the Graeco-Roman world
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ISBN: 9004043683 9004296379 9789004043688 Year: 1975 Volume: 51 Publisher: Leiden : E.J. Brill,

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Romanising oriental Gods
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ISBN: 1282396315 9786612396311 9047441842 9789047441847 9789004132931 9004132937 Year: 2008 Publisher: Leiden New York

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The traditional grand narrative correlating the decline of Graeco-Roman religion with the rise of Christianity has been under pressure for three decades. This book argues that the alternative accounts now emerging significantly underestimate the role of three major cults, of Cybele and Attis, Isis and Serapis, and Mithras. Although their differences are plain, these cults present sufficient common features to justify their being taken typologically as a group. All were selective adaptations of much older cults of the Fertile Crescent. It was their relative sophistication, their combination of the imaginative power of unfamiliar myth with distinctive ritual performance and ethical seriousness, that enabled them both to focus and to articulate a sense of the autonomy of religion from the socio-political order, a sense they shared with Early Christianity. The notion of 'mystery' was central to their ability to navigate the Weberian shift from ritualist to ethical salvation.

Inconsistencies in Greek and Roman religion. 1 : Ter unus : Isis, Dionysos, Hermes : three studies in henotheism.
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ISBN: 9004092668 9004092684 9004092676 9004296727 9004296735 9789004092662 9789004092686 Year: 1990 Volume: 6 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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This is the first of a two-volume collection of studies in inconsistencies in Greek and Roman religion. Their common aim is to argue for the historical relevance of various types of ambiguity and dissonance. The first volume focuses on the central paradoxes in ancient henotheism. The term 'henotheism' -- a modern formation after the stereotyped acclamation: #EIS O QEOS# ('one is the god'), common to early Christianity and contemporaneous paganism -- denotes the specific devotion to one particular god without denying the existence of, or even cultic attention to, other gods. After its prime in the twenties and thirties of this century the term fell into disuse. Nonetheless, the notion of henotheism represents one of the most remarkable and significant shifts in Graeco-Roman religion and hence deserves fresh reconsideration.


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Isis on the Nile
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ISBN: 1283119943 9786613119940 9004210865 9789004210868 9789004188822 9004188827 Year: 2010 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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The diffusion of the cults of Isis is recently again intensively studied. Research on this fascinating phenomenon has traditionally been characterised by its focus on L'Égypte hors d'Égypte, while developments in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt itself were often seen as belonging to a different domain. This volume tries to overcome that unhealthy dichotomy by studying the cults of Isis in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt itself in relation to developments in the Mediterranean at large. The book not only presents an overview of the most important deities, often based on new or unpublished material, but also pays ample attention to the cultural processes behind Isis on Nile, like relations between style and identity, religious choice, social- and cultural memory and Egypt’s view of its own past.


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Power, politics and the cults of Isis
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ISSN: 09277633 ISBN: 9789004277182 9789004278271 9004278273 9004277188 132251495X Year: 2014 Volume: 180 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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Isis (Egyptian deity) --- Religion and politics --- Isis (Divinité egyptienne) --- Religion et politique --- Cult --- Congresses. --- History --- Congresses --- Culte --- Congrès --- Histoire --- Egypt --- Egypte --- Religion --- Conferences - Meetings --- Isis --- Isis (Divinité egyptienne) --- Congrès --- Political science --- Politics, Practical --- Politics and religion --- Religions --- Religious aspects --- Political aspects --- Aset --- Eset --- Iset --- İsida --- Isidi --- Izida --- Iziso --- Iside --- Izidė --- Ízisz --- Izyda --- 伊西斯 --- Yi xi si --- イシス --- Ishisu --- איזיס --- 이시스 --- Isiseu --- Исида --- Изида --- Ісіда --- إيزيس --- Īzīs --- Ἴσις --- Égypte --- Ägypten --- Egitto --- Egipet --- Egiptos --- Miṣr --- Southern Region (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Region (United Arab Republic) --- Iqlīm al-Janūbī (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Territory (United Arab Republic) --- Egipat --- Arab Republic of Egypt --- A.R.E. --- ARE (Arab Republic of Egypt) --- Jumhūrīyat Miṣr al-ʻArabīyah --- Mitsrayim --- Egipt --- Ijiptʻŭ --- Misri --- Ancient Egypt --- Gouvernement royal égyptien --- جمهورية مصر العربية --- مِصر‎ --- مَصر‎ --- Maṣr --- Khēmi --- エジプト --- Ejiputo --- Egypti --- Egypten --- מצרים --- United Arab Republic --- Isis (Egyptian deity) - Cult - Congresses. --- Religion and politics - Egypt - Congresses. --- Egypt - Religion - Congresses.

Nile into Tiber : Egypt in the Roman world
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ISSN: 09277633 ISBN: 9004154205 9789004154209 9786611400743 1281400742 9047411137 9789047411130 Year: 2006 Volume: 159 Publisher: Leiden: Brill,

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Interest in all kinds of interactions between Egypt and Rome has grown considerably over the last decade. This debate has not only altered our views on the impact of Rome on Alexandria and Egypt but also strongly put to the fore the reverse direction of this cultural interaction: Egyptian influences on the Roman world. It is this topic, Egypt in the Roman World , that was central to the IIIrd International Conference of Isis Studies, held in Leiden in May 2005. This book, a selection of the papers delivered at the conference, gives a clear overview of the debate as it has developed in recent years. In two parts (I. Interpretations of the meaning of Aegyptiaca Romana and II. Understanding the cults of Isis in their local context )preceded by a general introduction it offers a broad perspective on the various aspects of cultural interaction between Egypt and Rome, also by bringing together different research traditions in this field.

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Isis (Egyptian deity) --- Cult --- Isis (Divinité égyptienne) --- Congresses --- Culte --- Congrès --- Egypt --- Rome --- Egypte --- Religion --- Congresses. --- 299.31 --- Religion Ancient Egyptian --- Égypte --- Ägypten --- Egitto --- Egipet --- Egiptos --- Miṣr --- Southern Region (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Region (United Arab Republic) --- Iqlīm al-Janūbī (United Arab Republic) --- Egyptian Territory (United Arab Republic) --- Egipat --- Arab Republic of Egypt --- A.R.E. --- ARE (Arab Republic of Egypt) --- Jumhūrīyat Miṣr al-ʻArabīyah --- Mitsrayim --- Egipt --- Ijiptʻŭ --- Misri --- Ancient Egypt --- Gouvernement royal égyptien --- جمهورية مصر العربية --- مِصر‎ --- مَصر‎ --- Maṣr --- Khēmi --- エジプト --- Ejiputo --- Egypti --- Egypten --- מצרים --- United Arab Republic --- Conferences - Meetings --- Isis --- Cults. --- Religion. --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Alternative religious movements --- Cultus --- Marginal religious movements --- New religions --- New religious movements --- NRMs (Religion) --- Religious movements, Alternative --- Religious movements, Marginal --- Religious movements, New --- Sects --- Aset --- Eset --- Iset --- Ishisu --- İsida --- Iside --- Isidi --- Isiseu --- Izida --- Izid --- Īzīs --- Iziso --- Ízisz --- Izyda --- Yi xi si --- Izidė --- 伊西斯 --- イシス --- איזיס --- 이시스 --- Исида --- Изида --- Ісіда --- إيزيس --- Ἴσις --- Egypt. --- ARE --- Ijiptʻ --- Isis (Egyptian deity) - Cult - Congresses.

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