Minoan Religion: Ritual, Image, and Symbol (Studies in Comparative Religion) - Hardcover

Marinatos, Nanno

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0872497445 ISBN 13: 9780872497443

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Pr, 1993

Synopsis

"book should establish itself as a reference work"

About this title

Reviews

Marinatos (archaeology and classics, College Year, Athens) provides a comprehensive, well-documented, and carefully illustrated theory of religion during the Bronze Age in Crete. She shows that the Minoan religion is similar to Egyptian and Near Eastern religions in its concentration on death and rebirth, divine sacred marriage, and nature imagery emphasizing cyclical renewal but maintains its distinctiveness in social and ritual organization. She views religious change in combination with historical and social change, beginning her analysis before the advent of the palaces--which she regards as temples--and concluding in the postpalatial period. Essential for academic libraries; highly recommended for museum and public libraries.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Pr
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0872497445
• ISBN 13: 9780872497443
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 306