Religion and the Everyday Life of Manichaeans in Kellis
Title | Religion and the Everyday Life of Manichaeans in Kellis PDF eBook |
Author | Mattias Brand |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 425 |
Release | 2022-05-20 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 900451029X |
Published in Open Access with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Winner of the Manfred Lautenschläger Award! Religion is never simply there. In Religion and the Everyday Life of Manichaeans in Kellis, Mattias Brand shows where and when ordinary individuals and families in Egypt practiced a Manichaean way of life. Rather than portraying this ancient religion as a well-structured, totalizing community, the fourth-century papyri sketch a dynamic image of lived religious practice, with all the contradictions, fuzzy boundaries, and limitations of everyday life. Following these microhistorical insights, this book demonstrates how family life, gift-giving, death rituals, communal gatherings, and book writing are connected to our larger academic debates about religious change in late antiquity.
The Manichaeans of Kellis
Title | The Manichaeans of Kellis PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 442 |
Release | 2019 |
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Religion and the Everyday Life of Manichaeans in Kellis
Title | Religion and the Everyday Life of Manichaeans in Kellis PDF eBook |
Author | Mattias Brand |
Publisher | Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Stu |
Pages | 428 |
Release | 2022 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9789004508224 |
Makarios's Family: Manichaeans at Home in the Oasis -- Pamour's Connections: Religion beyond a Conflict Model -- Orion's Language: Manichaean Self-Designation in the Kellis Papyri -- Tehat's Gifts: Everyday Community Boundaries -- The Deacon's Practice: Manichaean Gatherings with Prayer and Psalm Singing --
The Manichaean Church in Kellis
Title | The Manichaean Church in Kellis PDF eBook |
Author | Håkon Fiane Teigen |
Publisher | Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Stu |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9789004459762 |
Introduction: Mani's Church and Social Life -- Life in Kellis: Society and Religion in an Oasis Town -- The Pamour Family: Familial and Economic Networks -- Village Networks: The Small World of Fourth-Century Kellis -- Manichaean Cues: Religious Identity in Everyday Life -- Manichaean Networks: The Social Networks of the Laity at Kellis -- Manichaean Books: Textual Practices, Community, and the Literary Texts -- Manichaean Rituals: Elect and Laity at Kellis -- The Manichaean Church: Elect Organisation -- Conclusion: A Church in the World.
The Kephalaia of the Teacher
Title | The Kephalaia of the Teacher PDF eBook |
Author | Iain Gardner |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 351 |
Release | 2020-10-26 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004328912 |
First English translation of the Coptic text (c. 400 CE), with commentaries and indices, to this major source for the teachings of Mani. Manichaeism was the most successful of the gnostic dualistic traditions that challenged the triumph of the imperial Christian Church.
The Manichaean Church in Kellis
Title | The Manichaean Church in Kellis PDF eBook |
Author | Håkon Fiane Teigen |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 365 |
Release | 2021-06-08 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004459774 |
The Manichaean Church in Kellis presents an in-depth study of social organisation within the religious movement known as Manichaeism in Roman Egypt. In particular, it employs papyri from Kellis (Ismant el-Kharab), a village in the Dakhleh Oasis, to explore the socio-religious world of lay Manichaeans in the fourth century CE. Manichaeism has often been perceived as an elitist, esoteric religion. Challenging this view, Teigen draws on social network theory and cultural sociology, and engages with the study of lived ancient religion, in order to apprehend how laypeople in Kellis appropriated Manichaean identity and practice in their everyday lives. This perspective, he argues, not only provides a better understanding of Manichaeism: it also has wider implications for how we understand late antique ‘religion’ as a social phenomenon
The Manichaeans of the Roman East
Title | The Manichaeans of the Roman East PDF eBook |
Author | Rea Matsangou |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 604 |
Release | 2023-08-28 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004544224 |
The Manichaeans of the Roman East is the first monograph that synthesizes an enormous body of primary material to reconstruct the history of East-Roman Manichaeans, from the time their first missionaries arrived in the territory of the Roman East until the disappearance of Manichaeism from the Eastern Roman Empire. Through her systematically comparative and intertextual investigation of the sources, Matsangou provides a number of original approaches to issues such as the classification of Manichaeism, the socio-religious profile and lifestyle of East Roman Manichaeans, the triggers of the severe anti-Manichaean persecutions. She thoroughly analyses the relationship between Manichaean and Christian ascetics for the first time, suggesting a possible Manichaean impact on the rise of ascetic manifestations among Christian ascetics, monks, and individuals in society. By considering the dimensions of the phenomenon of crypto-Manichaeism and using the concept of “entryism”—borrowed from politics—as a theoretical model, Matsangou makes intriguing hypotheses suggesting an alternative explanation for the disappearance of Manichaeism from the Roman East.