Luther H. Martin is Professor of Religion Emeritus at the University of Vermont, USA.

• Introduction1. Roman Mithraism and Christianity2. Reflections on the Mithraic Tauroctony as Cult Scene3. The Roman Cult of Mithras: A Cognitive Perspective4. Ritual Competence and Mithraic Ritual5. The Ecology of Threat Detection and Precautionary Response from the Perspectives of Evolutionary Psychology and Historiography: The Case of the Roman Cults of Mithras6. Landscape and Mindscape in the Roman Cult of Mithras7. Cult Migration, Social Formation, and Religious Identity in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: The Curious Case of Roman Mithraism8. 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 EgyptBibliographyIndex

The Mind of Mithraists provides the readership with an impressive, updated synthesis, specifically contributing to Mithraic studies by adding an evolutionary groundwork and a social post-structuralist perspective ... Historically engaging, theoretically exhilarating, and methodologically inspiring.

Luther H. Martin is Professor of Religion Emeritus at the University of Vermont, USA.

• Introduction1. Roman Mithraism and Christianity2. Reflections on the Mithraic Tauroctony as Cult Scene3. The Roman Cult of Mithras: A Cognitive Perspective4. Ritual Competence and Mithraic Ritual5. The Ecology of Threat Detection and Precautionary Response from the Perspectives of Evolutionary Psychology and Historiography: The Case of the Roman Cults of Mithras6. Landscape and Mindscape in the Roman Cult of Mithras7. Cult Migration, Social Formation, and Religious Identity in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: The Curious Case of Roman Mithraism8. 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 EgyptBibliographyIndex

The Mind of Mithraists provides the readership with an impressive, updated synthesis, specifically contributing to Mithraic studies by adding an evolutionary groundwork and a social post-structuralist perspective ... Historically engaging, theoretically exhilarating, and methodologically inspiring.

Luther H. Martin is Professor of Religion Emeritus at the University of Vermont, USA.

• Introduction1. Roman Mithraism and Christianity2. Reflections on the Mithraic Tauroctony as Cult Scene3. The Roman Cult of Mithras: A Cognitive Perspective4. Ritual Competence and Mithraic Ritual5. The Ecology of Threat Detection and Precautionary Response from the Perspectives of Evolutionary Psychology and Historiography: The Case of the Roman Cults of Mithras6. Landscape and Mindscape in the Roman Cult of Mithras7. Cult Migration, Social Formation, and Religious Identity in Graeco-Roman Antiquity: The Curious Case of Roman Mithraism8. 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 EgyptBibliographyIndex

The Mind of Mithraists provides the readership with an impressive, updated synthesis, specifically contributing to Mithraic studies by adding an evolutionary groundwork and a social post-structuralist perspective ... Historically engaging, theoretically exhilarating, and methodologically inspiring.