RT Article
T1 Transformation of the initiates' identities after their initiation into the mysteries of Mithras
JF Bulletin for the study of religion
VO 40
IS 1
SP 52
OP 61
A1 Panagiotidou, Olympia
LA English
PB Equinox
YR 2011
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1837431957
AB This article is a preliminary attempt to investigate the way in which the initiates into the mithraic mysteries experienced a transformation of their identities in the cultic context. This transformation expanded in the wider framework of their lives and determined new, different lines of action. Since the very processes, through which people acquire a sense of themselves and shape their identity, are determined by specific cognitive principles and operations, the investigation of these processes could help us to understand how Mithraists experienced their participation to the mysteries, and the effects that such an experience had in the way in which they perceived themselves. In this perspective the cognitive theory of Mark Johnson about the narrative dimension of human experience is used as a theoretical framework for an understanding of the broader impact of initiation into the mithraic mysteries on the construction of the initiates’ identities.
K1 Mark Johnson
K1 Mithras
K1 Identity
K1 Narrative
K1 Self
DO 10.1558/bsor.v40i1.006