This isn't very new, but what about: Walter Burkert "Ancient Mystery Cults"
(Harvard University Press 1987).
~Caroline.
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Subject: Re: [ACADEMIC-STUDY-MAGIC] Christianity and the Mysteries
> From: D Robertson <[log in to unmask]>
> Just a quick request - can anyone recommend a good book on the links
> between Christianity and the Mystery cults? I have some stuff
> specifically on Mithraism, but I'm looking for a more general overview
> for a paper I'm writing.
The Mystery Religions and Christianity: A Study in the
Religious Background of Early Christianity,
by Samuel Angus, 1925; 1966 (Citadel) ISBN: 0806511427.
the Dover version of the text is online at books.google.com:
http://books.google.com/books?id=3m61I6Q-dRUC&dq=%22The+Mystery+Religions+an
d+Christianity%22+Angus&pg=PP1&ots=ml_BVCN_mh&source=bn&sig=G9HzOT5uk7Og1sR8
NT2yxe5_SaQ&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result
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