Women in Western and Eastern Manichaeism
Title | Women in Western and Eastern Manichaeism PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2022-07-18 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004472223 |
These papers examine the unique place women held in Manichaeism, both in myth and in everyday life – in marked difference with other religions. The reader is invited to a journey from 4th century Roman Empire and Iran to Central Asia and China
Manichaeism East and West
Title | Manichaeism East and West PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel N. C. Lieu |
Publisher | Brepols Publishers |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Manichaeism |
ISBN | 9782503574578 |
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.
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 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.
Women and Men in Love
Title | Women and Men in Love PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Edward Waine |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1845455223 |
It has often been assumed that Europeans invented and had the exclusive monopoly over courtly and romantic love, commonly considered to be the highest form of relations between men and women. This view was particularly prevalent between 1770 and the mid-twentieth century, but was challenged in the 1960s when romantic love came to be seen as a universal sentiment that can be found in all cultures in the world. However, there remains the historical problem that the Europeans used this concept of love as a fundamental part of their self-image over a long period (traces of it still remain) and it became very much caught up in the concept of marriage. This book challenges the underlying Eurocentrism of this notion while exploring in a more general sense the connection between identity and emotions.
Women and Men in Love
Title | Women and Men in Love PDF eBook |
Author | Luisa Passerini |
Publisher | Berghahn Books |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 2012-07 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 0857451766 |
It has often been assumed that Europeans invented and had the exclusive monopoly over courtly and romantic love, commonly considered to be the highest form of relations between men and women. This view was particularly prevalent between 1770 and the mid-twentieth century, but was challenged in the 1960s when romantic love came to be seen as a universal sentiment that can be found in all cultures in the world. However, there remains the historical problem that the Europeans used this concept of love as a fundamental part of their self-image over a long period (traces of it still remain) and it became very much caught up in the concept of marriage. This book challenges the underlying Eurocentrism of this notion while exploring in a more general sense the connection between identity and emotions.
Manichaeism and Its Legacy
Title | Manichaeism and Its Legacy PDF eBook |
Author | John Kevin Coyle |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004175741 |
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.