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'''Hellenistic Mystery-Religions: Their Basic Ideas and Significance''' (1978) is the English edition of [[Die hellenistischen Mysterienreligionen, 3rd ed. (Hellenistic Mystery-Religions / 1927 Reitzenstein), book]]. Translated from the German by [[John E. Steely]].

==Abstract ==

==Editions and translations==

Published in Pittsburgh, PA: Pickwick Press, 1978.

==Table of contents==

Lecture -- Appendices and elucidation -- Approach to the material, and its definition -- Oriental and Hellenistic cult -- Mystai, divine warriors, and divine captives -- The religious impact of Persian rule -- The report of Apuleius -- The Hellenistic concept of pistis -- Philosopher and prophet -- Mystery and primitive religion -- The internalizing of the mysteries -- Love-union with God -- Election, call, justification, glorification -- Designations for transformation -- Virtues and vices as members -- The new Manichaean fragments -- The concepts of Gnosis and Ppneuma -- Paul as a pneumatic -- The technical language of the gnostics -- The dual awareness in romanticism -- The meaning of the self -- On the developmental history of Paul.

==External links==
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