"Ancient Mediterranean Religions: Myth, Ritual and Religious Experience by author and researcher in the field of religious studies John Stephens offers a clear and concise historical overview of the major religious movements of the ancient Mediterranean world existing from the time of the second millennium BCE up until the fourth century CE, including both the Judeo-Christian and pagan religious traditions. [...] Since the entire religious topography of the ancient Mediterranean world is rarely outlined in a single volume, Ancient Mediterranean Religions is a rare exception. Exhaustively researched, impressively well written, exceptionally and accessibly organized and presented, Ancient Mediterranean Religions: Myth, Ritual and Religious Experience is study of extraordinary and seminal scholarship. Enhanced with the inclusion of a six page Bibliography and a nineteen page Index, Ancient Mediterranean Religions is a critically important addition to personal, community, college, and university library Ancient History collections in general, and Mediterranean Religions of Antiquity supplemental studies reading lists in particular."Michael J. CarsonThe Midwest Book Review's Reviewer's Bookwatch, 16:9 (September 2016)"Stephens’s agenda takes him backwards and forwards across the ancient West/East ‘divide,’ and by the time we are half way through his book we are learning about Eastern influences on the Western cultures. The coverage is daring, and never before attempted with this particular focus."Garry Trompf, University of Sydney, Ancient East and West 17 (2018)