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Author : Michel Tardieu
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Manichaeism
ISBN : 9780252032783
Good and evil, light and darkness; for the first time in English, a potent survey of Manichaeism
Author : Iain Gardner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108499071
A new critical look at Mani's life to establish a proper historical foundation for the study of this fascinating thinker.
Author : Susan Ashbrook Harvey,David G. Hunter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1049 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199271569
Provides an introduction to the academic study of early Christianity (c. 100-600 AD) and examines the vast geographical area impacted by the early church, in Western and Eastern late antiquity. --from publisher description.
Author : Samuel N. C. Lieu,Erica C. D. Hunter,Enrico Morano,Nils Arne Pedersen
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Manichaeism
ISBN : 2503574572
This new volume brings the research on many aspects of the texts published in the Corpus up to date and signals new texts to appear in the Corpus. It includes important studies on the scientific dating of the Medinet Madi, codices as well as the newly discovered Manichaean texts in Chinese and Parthian from Xiapu in South China.
Author : Nicholas J. Baker-Brian
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567110411
This is the first general comprehensive introduction to Manichaeism aimed at a non-specialist and undergraduate readership. This study will be a historical and theological introduction to Manichaeism. It will comprise a biographical treatment of the founder Mani, situating his personality, his writings and his ideas within the Aramaic Christian tradition of third century (CE) Mesopotamia. It will provide a historical treatment of the Manichaean church in late antiquity (250-700 CE), detailing the emergence of Manichaeism in the late Roman and Byzantine empires, in addition to examining the continuation of Manichaean traditions in the eastern world (China) up to the thirteenth century and beyond. The book will consider the theology of Mani's system, with the aim of providing a clear-eyed treatment of the cosmogonic, scriptural and ecclesiological ideas forming its foundations. The study will base its analysis on original Manichaean literary sources, together with rehabilitating the representation of Manichaeism in those writings that polemicised against the religion. The study will aim to demonstrate the highly syncretic nature of Manichaeism, and will look to move forward 'traditional' perceptions of the religion as being simply a form of Christian Gnostic Dualism.
Author : W. B. Fisher,Ilya Gershevitch,Ehsan Yarshater,R. N. Frye,J. A. Boyle,Peter Jackson,Peter Avery
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 998 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Iran
ISBN : 0521246938
Surveys Iranian history and culture and its contribution to the civilization of the world. Covers religious, philosophical, political, economic, scientific and artistic elements in Iranian civilization.
Author : Jason David BeDuhn
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0801871077
Award for the Best First Book in the History of Religions from the American Academy of Religion Reconstructing Manichaeism from scraps of ancient texts and the ungenerous polemic of its enemies (such as the ex-Manichaean Augustine of Hippo), BeDuhn reveals for the first time the religion as it was actually practiced. He describes the Manichaeans' daily ritual meal, their stringent disciplinary codes (intended to prevent humans from harming plants and animals), and their secretive religious procedures designed to transform the cosmos and bring about the salvation of all living beings. Overturning long-held assumptions about Manichaean dualism, asceticism, spirituality, and the pursuit of salvation, The Manichaean Body changes completely how we look at this ancient religion and the environment in which Christianity arose. BeDuhn's conclusions revolutionize our understanding of the Manichaeans, clearly distinguishing them from Gnostics and other early Christian heretics and revealing them to be practitioners of a unique world religion.
Author : John C. Reeves
Publisher : Equinox Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Manichaeism
ISBN : 1781790388
Prolegomena to a History of Islamicate Manichaeism provides an annotated anthology of primary sources highlighting Manichaeism, a dualist religion emerging in Mesopotamia in the third century and which spread rapidly throughout the Roman and Sasanian empires until it was violently suppressed by both polities.
Author : Samuel Lieu
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004439832
The discovery of genuine Manichaean texts from sites like Turfan and Tun-huang since the beginning of the century has greatly increased our knowledge of the teaching of Manichaeism and of its amazing geographical spread in pre-Islamic times. This volume brings together the contributions by a leading authority on the subject including a long survey article on the history of the discovery of the texts from Central Asia as well as articles focusing on some of these texts and on the incredible history of adaptation and survival of the sect in China proper. The studies include many Chinese texts on Manichaeism made available for the first time in their original scripts and in translation. The volume also contains the first ever working catalogue of all Manichaean texts (in western as well as oriental languages) published up to 1997.
Author : J. van (Johannes) Oort,Jacob Albert van den Berg
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 769 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004189973
This volume in honour of Prof. Dr. Johannes van Oort offers a rich variety of in-depth studies on Augustine, Manichaeism, and other Gnostic currents, thus reflecting the rich variety of the honorand’s research interests.
Author : John Kevin Coyle
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004175747
This volume reproduces nineteen chapters and articles published between 1991 through 2008, on Manichaeism, and its contacts with Augustine of Hippo, its most famous convert and also best-known adversary. The contents are divided into four parts: perceptions of Mani within the Roman Empire, select aspects of Manichaean thought, women in Manichaeism, and Manichaeism and Augustine. Though these chapters and articles reproduce their originals, adjustments have been made to include cross-referencing, newer editions, and the like, all with the aim of rendering them more accessible to a new readership among those who follow the fortunes of Mani s religion in the Roman Empire and/or the Manichaean aspects of Augustine of Hippo.
Author : Iain Gardner,Samuel N. C. Lieu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0521568226
This 2004 book is a single-volume collection of sources for Manichaeism, a world religion founded by Mani, the Syrian visionary.
Author : M.S.Asimov,Clifford Edmund Bosworth
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Asia, Central
ISBN : 8120815963
Author : Colin Starnes
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780889209916
Colin Starnes teaches Patristics in the Classics Department at Dalhousie University in Halifax. In addition to publishing numerous articles on the transition from antiquity to the medieval period, he is the author of The New Republic: A Commentary on Book I of More's Utopia Showing Its Relation to Plato's Republic (WLU Press, 1990).
Author : Juri P. Stojanov,Yuri Stoyanov
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000-08-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300082531
This fascinating book explores the evolution of religious dualism, the doctrine that man and cosmos are constant battlegrounds between forces of good and evil. It traces this evolution from late Egyptian religion and the revelations of Zoroaster and the Orphics in antiquity through the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Mithraic Mysteries, and the great Gnostic teachers to its revival in medieval Europe with the suppression of the Bogomils and the Cathars, heirs to the age-long teachings of dualism. Integrating political, cultural, and religious history, Yuri Stoyanov illuminates the dualist religious systems, recreating in vivid detail the diverse worlds of their striking ideas and beliefs, their convoluted mythologies and symbolism. Reviews of an earlier edition: "A book of prime importance for anyone interested in the history of religious dualism. The author's knowledge of relevant original sources is remarkable; and he has distilled them into a convincing and very readable whole."--Sir Steven Runciman "The most fascinating historical detective story since Steven Runciman's Sicilian Vespers."--Colin Wilson "A splendid account of the decline of the dualist tradition in the East . . . both strong and accessible. . . . The most readable account of Balkan heresy ever."--Jeffrey B. Russell, Journal of Religion "Well-written, fact-filled, and fascinating . . . has in it the making of a classic." --Harry T. Norris, Bulletin of SOAS