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Mithraism and Christianity were both active religions during the Roman empire.

Further reading

I'd suggest that this fascinating list of references be ordered either alphabetically by prime author's last name or else by date of publication. Belle Fast (talk) 15:37, 14 July 2023 (UTC)

• Abruzzi, William S. (2018), Mithraism and Christianity: Competition, Exclusion and Appropriation, doi:10.13140/RG.2.2.36486.52804Also available from Academia.edu as a PDF. {{citation}}: External link in |postscript= (help)CS1 maint: postscript (link)
• Altaweel, Mark; Squitieri, Andrea (2018). "The rise of shared and universal religions". Revolutionizing a world: From small states to universalism in the pre-Islamic Near East. London: UCL Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctt21c4td4.14. ISBN 978-1-911576-63-1. OCLC 1028993193.
• Alvar Ezquerra, J. (1 December 2007). "Chapter Five. The Oriental Cults And Christianity". Romanising Oriental Gods. Brill. pp. 383–421. doi:10.1163/ej.9789004132931.i-486.25. ISBN 978-90-474-4184-7.
• Betz, Hans Dieter (1968). "The Mithras Inscriptions of Santa Prisca and the New Testament". Novum Testamentum. 10 (1). Brill: 62–80. doi:10.1163/156853668x00066. ISSN 0048-1009.
• Bøgh, Birgitte (2015). "Beyond Nock: From Adhesion to Conversion in the Mystery Cults". History of Religions. 54 (3). University of Chicago Press: 260–287. doi:10.1086/678994. ISSN 0018-2710. S2CID 161128887.
• Decker III, Peter J. (2013). The Sword and the Cross: Examining the Transference between Mithraism and Christianity (B.A. Thesis). Kalamazoo, Michigan: Kalamazoo College. hdl:10920/28313.
• Gervers, Michael (1 December 2014). "The iconography of the cave in Christian And Mithraic tradition". Mysteria Mithrae. Brill. pp. 579–599. doi:10.1163/9789004295605_035. ISBN 978-90-04-29560-5.
• Hayden, J. (2019), First Among Equals: The Pre-Nicene Christian Eucharist in the Context of Greco-Roman Mystery Cults
• Hinnells, John R. (1968). "Christianity and the Mystery Cults". Theology. 71 (571). Sage: 20–26. doi:10.1177/0040571x6807100106. ISSN 0040-571X. S2CID 170128591.
• Hollon, E., The identification of blood and wine in the eucharist: Syncretism between Christian and Greco-Roman rituals
• Luciano, Alessandro (2020). "From Paganism to Christianity: The Cults of Mithras and Persian Martyrs in Imperial Rome". Archaeology of Iran in the Historical Period (PDF). University of Tehran Science and Humanities Series. Cham: Springer International Publishing. pp. 245–262. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-41776-5_20. ISBN 978-3-030-41775-8. ISSN 2367-1092. S2CID 219475944.
• Laeuchli, Samuel (1968). "Urban Mithraism". The Biblical Archaeologist. 31 (3). University of Chicago Press: 73–99. doi:10.2307/3210985. ISSN 0006-0895. JSTOR 3210985. S2CID 224787850.
• Martin, Luther H. (1989). "Roman Mithraism and Christianity". Numen. 36 (1). Brill: 2–15. doi:10.2307/3269850. ISSN 0029-5973. JSTOR 3269850. Alternate doi:10.1163/156852789x00135
• Nabarz, P.; Matthews, C. (2005). The Mysteries of Mithras: The Pagan Belief That Shaped the Christian World. Inner Traditions/Bear. ISBN 978-1-59477-027-2. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
• Jackson, H. L. (1922). Mithraism and Christianity.
• Laeuchli, Samuel; Groh, Dennis Edward (1967). Mithraism in Ostia: Mystery religion and Christianity in the ancient port of Rome. Garrett theological studies. Northwestern University Press. OCLC 463082103.
• Lease, Gary (2016). "Mithraism and Christianity: Borrowings and transformations". In Temporini, Hildegard; Haase, Wolfgang (eds.). Religion (Vorkonstantinisches Christentum: Verhältnis zu römischem Staat und heidnischer Religion, Fortsetzung) [Religion (Pre-Constantinian Christianity: Relationship to the Roman State and Pagan Religion, continuation)]. [Rise and descent of the Roman world] (in German). Vol. II.23.2. De Gruyter. pp. 1306–1332. ISBN 978-3-11-086043-6. OCLC 848436278. {{cite book}}: |trans-periodical= requires |periodical= or |script-periodical= (help); |work= ignored (help)
• Luciano, A. (2020). From Paganism to Christianity: The Cults of Mithras and Persian Martyrs in Imperial Rome. In Archaeology of Iran in the Historical Period (pp. 245-262). Springer, Cham.
• Meyer, Marvin W. (2006). "The "Mithras" Liturgy". In Levine, Amy-Jill; Allison, Dale C.; Crossan, John Dominic (eds.). The Historical Jesus in Context. Princeton Readings in Religions. Princeton University Press. pp. 179–192. ISBN 978-1-4008-2737-4.
• Patterson, Leonard (1921). Mithraism and Christianity: A study in comparative religion. Cambridge University Press. OCLC 459161298.
• Roselaar, Saskia (1 December 2013). "The Cult of Mithras in Early Christian Literature – an Inventory and Interpretation". Klio. 96 (1). Walter de Gruyter GmbH: 183–217. doi:10.1515/klio-2014-0007. ISSN 0075-6334. S2CID 162018712.
• Scheerlinck, E. (2014). "History of Religions in the Making: Franz Cumont (1868-1947) and the 'Oriental Religions'". In Bod, R.; Maat, J.; Weststeijn, T. (eds.). The modern humanities. The Making of the Humanities. Vol. III. Amsterdam University Press. pp. 219–232. ISBN 9789089645166. JSTOR j.ctt12877vs.17.
• Simón, Francisco Marco (2018). "A Place with Shared Meanings: Mithras, Sabazius, and Christianity in the "Tomb of Vibia"" (PDF). Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. 58 (1–4). Akademiai Kiado Zrt.: 225–242. doi:10.1556/068.2018.58.1-4.14. ISSN 0044-5975. S2CID 203192324.
• Simón, F. M. (2018). A Place with Shared Meanings: Mithras, Sabazius, and Christianity in the “Tomb of Vibia”. Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 58(1-4), 225-242.
• Vaage, L. E. (2006). Religious rivalries in the early Roman empire and the rise of Christianity. Studies in Christianity and Judaism. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. ISBN 978-1-55458-809-1.
• Winter, E. (2000). "Mithraism and Christianity in late antiquity". In Mitchell, S.; Greatrex, G. (eds.). Ethnicity and Culture in Late Antiquity. Duckworth. pp. 173–182. ISBN 978-0-7156-3043-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
• Autran, Charles (1935). Mithra, Zoroastre et la préhistoire aryenne du christianisme (in French). Payot. OCLC 216887168.
• Donaldson, Terence Lyle (2000). Religious Rivalries and the Struggle for Success in Caesarea Maritima. Studies in Christianity and Judaism. Wilfred Laurier University Press. ISBN 978-1-55458-670-7. OCLC 1015440121.
• Dundua, T`edo (1999). Christianity and Mithraism : the Georgian story. Meridian Publishers. ISBN 99928-22-54-6. OCLC 52986823.
• Gómez de Liaño, Ignacio (1998). El círculo de la sabiduría : diagramas del conocimiento en el mitraísmo, el gnosticismo, el cristianismo, y el maniqueísmo (in Spanish). Ediciones Siruela. ISBN 84-7844-390-8. OCLC 49942864.
• Halliday, W. R. (1970). The pagan background of early Christianity. Cooper Square Publishers. ISBN 0-8154-0331-3. OCLC 93102.
• Legge, Francis (1964). Forerunners and rivals of Christianity : from 330 B.C. to 330 A.D. University Books. OCLC 883951942.
• Malloch, D. K. (2006). Christ and the Taurobolium : Lord Mithras in the Genesis of Christianity. Lochan. ISBN 0-9540786-1-6. OCLC 85828382.
• Mastrocinque, Attilio (2009). Des mystères de Mithra aux mystères de Jésus (in French). ISBN 978-3-515-09250-0. OCLC 316034040.
• Nabarz, Payam (2005). The mysteries of Mithras : the pagan belief that shaped the Christian world. Inner Traditions. ISBN 1-59477-027-1. OCLC 57557611.
• Sauer, Eberhard W. (1996). The end of Paganism in the North-West provinces of the Roman Empire : the example of the Mithras cult. Tempus Reparatum. ISBN 0-86054-816-3. OCLC 1006013219.
• Westphal, Henri (1911). Mithra et le Christ : en présence du monde romain (in French). Cahors & Alençon. OCLC 34091403.
• Zwirn, Stephen R (1992). Narrative frames : temporal settings for images of Hercules, Mithras and Christ. OCLC 1110335968.