num_pages: 486
description: The 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.
language: English
title: Romanising Oriental Gods: Myth, Salvation and Ethics in the Cults of Cybele, Isis and Mithras
publisher: Brill Academic Publishers