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166

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9789004170452

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Votives, Places and Rituals in Etruscan Religion

Edited by Margarita Gleba and Hilary Becker

By considering votive, mortuary and secular rituals, the volume offers a contribution to the continued study of Etruscan culture and gathers new material, interpretations and approaches to the less emphasized areas of Etruscan religion.

€169.00$219.00

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165

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9789004132931

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Romanising Oriental Gods

Author: Jaime Alvar Translator and editor: Richard Gordon

he relative sophistication of the three major 'Oriental cults' of the Roman Empire, combining unfamiliar myth with distinctive ritual, enabled them, like Early Christianity, to offer a properly ethical salvation in the Weberian sense.

€127.00$165.00

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164

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9789004167353

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The Variety of Local Religious Life in the Near East

edited by Ted Kaizer

This interdisciplinary collection of articles brings out the variety of local and regional patterns of worship in the Near East, and in this manner contributes to our quest for understanding the polytheistic cults of the region as a whole.

€136.00$176.00

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163

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9789004131415

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From Temple to Church

edited by Johannes Hahn, Stephen Emmel & Ulrich Gotter

Destruction of temples and their transformation into churches are central symbols of change in religious environment, socio-political system, and public perception in late antiquity. Archaeologists, historians, and historians of religion seek an appropriate larger perspective on the phenomenon ...

€97.00$126.00

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9781905246601

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An Illustrated Guide to Korean Mythology

Choi Won-Oh

This highly engaging volume by one of Korea’s leading scholars of comparative provides a valuable introduction to centuries-old beliefs, myths and folk tales relating to Cosmology and Flood, Birth and Agriculture, Messengers of the Underworld, Shamans, Disease, Good Fortune, Love and Family, ...