Manichaeism
Author: Michel Tardieu
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 0252032780
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Good and evil, light and darkness; for the first time in English, a potent survey of Manichaeism
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The Founder of Manichaeism
Author: Iain Gardner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-03-05
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 1108499074
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A new critical look at Mani's life to establish a proper historical foundation for the study of this fascinating thinker.
Manichaeism
Author: Nicholas J. Baker-Brian
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2011-02-17
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13: 0567308979
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies
Author: Susan Ashbrook Harvey
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008-09-04
Total Pages: 1049
ISBN-13: 9780199271566
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Manichaeism East and West
Author: Samuel N. C. Lieu
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9782503574578
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
The Manichaean Body
Author: Jason David BeDuhn
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2002-08-23
Total Pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780801871078
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Manichaeism and Its Legacy
Author: John Kevin Coyle
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 9004175741
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Prolegomena to a History of Islamicate Manichaeism
Author: John C. Reeves
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781781790380
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Manichaean Texts from the Roman Empire
Author: Iain Gardner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-06-03
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780521568227
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This 2004 book is a single-volume collection of sources for Manichaeism, a world religion founded by Mani, the Syrian visionary.
Manichaeism in Central Asia and China
Author: Samuel Lieu
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-10-26
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9004439838
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
