New Mithras book from Csaba Szabo on Mithras in Dacia

Csaba Szabo, one of the most active current Mithras scholars, has a new book out from Cambridge Scholars Publishing on Mithras in Dacia. His blog, with details, is here. Details: Csaba Szabó, Mithras in Roman Dacia: Local Appropriations of a Universal God. Cambridge Scholars (2026). ISBN13: 978-1-0364-7770-7. Blurb: The Roman cult of Mithras ranks among the ancient religious traditions that have left some of the most striking archaeological remains in Central and Eastern Europe. This volume examines the epigraphic and figurative evidence of the Roman cult of Mithras from the territory of the Roman province of Dacia (modern Romania) through a new and innovative methodology grounded in an interdisciplinary approach. Particular attention is devoted to the centuries-long historiographical tradition of Mithraic scholarship, contemporary developments in the archaeology of religion, and the phenomenon of religious glocalism. Within this framework, Mithras is analysed not merely as a…