Author: Samuel N. C. LieuPublisher:
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Languages : en
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New Light on Manichaeism in China
Author: Samuel N. C. LieuNew Light on Manichaeism
Author: Jason BeDuhnPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004172858
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
New Light on Manichaeism provides the latest discoveries and insights into the Manichaean religion throughout its more than one thousand year history, ranging from glimpses into the life and thought of Mani himself, to developments in doctrine and practice in the religion's North African, Iranian, Central Asian, and Chinese settings. The volume includes contributions from the leading scholars in the field, offering new reconstructions of Manichaean literary and artistic productions, and innovative analyses of the religious, social, and political dynamics that shaped the rise and fall of this world religion.
Manichaeism in Central Asia and China
Author: Samuel LieuPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004439838
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
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.
Manichaeism in the Later Roman Empire and Medieval China
Author: Samuel N. C. LieuPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719010880
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
'A unique and thrilling insight into the brilliant mind of Anne Lister' Sally Wainwright, creator of Gentleman JackFemale Fortune is the book which inspired Sally Wainwright to write Gentleman Jack, now a major drama series for the BBC and HBO.Lesbian landowner Anne Lister inherited Shibden Hall in 1826. She was an impressive scholar, fearless traveller and successful businesswoman, even developing her own coalmines. Her extraordinary diaries, running to 4-5 million words, were partly written in her own secret code and recorded her love affairs with startling candour. The diaries were included on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register in 2011.Jill Liddington's classic edition of the diaries tells the story of how Anne Lister wooed and seduced neighbouring heiress Ann Walker, who moved in to live with Anne and her family in 1834. Politically active, Anne Lister door-stepped her tenants at the 1835 Election to vote Tory. And socially very ambitious, she employed architects to redesign both the Hall and the estate.Yet Ann Walker had an inconvenient number of local relatives, suspicious of exactly how Anne Lister could pay for all her grand improvements. Tensions grew to a melodramatic crescendo when news reached Shibden of the pair being burnt in effigy.This 2022 edition includes a fascinating Afterword on the recent discovery of Ann Walker's own diary. Female Fortune is essential reading for those who watched Gentleman Jack and want to know more about the extraordinary woman that was Anne Lister.
The Religion of Light
Author: Samuel N. C. LieuPublisher:
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Category : Manichaeism
Languages : en
Pages : 70
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The Religion of Light
Author: Frank H. H. KingPublisher:
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Il Manicheismo
Author: Alois van TongerlooPublisher: Brepols Publishers
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Kurt Rudolph, The Progress of Research since the Foundation of the IAMS (1989); J.D. BeDuhn, The Leap of the Soul in Manichaeism; M. Bierbaums, Zur Geltung von Freiheit oder Unfreiheit des Willens (Augustinus, Contra Felelicem II); F. de Blois, New Light on the Sources of the Manichaean Chapter in the Fihrist; L. Cirillo, From the Elchasaite Christology to the Manichaean Apostle of Light; I. Colditz, Titles of Kings and Gods in Iranian Manichaean Texts; C. Colpe, Lehr- und Lernbeziehungen zwischen diversen Ostaramaern, westlichen Magiern und fruhen Manichaern als dialektisch- historischer Prozess; F. Decret, En marge du manuscrit manicheen africain de Tebessa; S. Demaria, Die griechischen Entlehnungen in den koptischen manichaischen Texten; M. Franzmann, The Syriac-Coptic Bilinguals from Ismant al-Kharab; I. Gardner, Some comments on Mani and Indian religions according to the Coptic Kephalaia; G. Gnoli, Mani, e'buhr e l'ora di Palmyra; Zs. Gulacsi, Mani's Picture Box? A Study of a Chagatai Textual Reference and its Supposed Pictorial Analogy from the British Librarya; E. Hunter, Theodore bar Koni and the Manichaeans; J. Iwersen, The Significance of Manichaeism in the History of Esotericism; K. Kaatz, What did Augustine Really Know about Manichaean Cosmogony; A. Khosroyev, Zu einem manichaischen (?) Gebet; W. Klein, The Epic Buddhacarita by Asvaghosa and its Significance for the Life of Mani; W. Krause, Der Stand der Arbeiten an der Arbietsstelle fur Manichaismusforschung in Munster; S.N.C. Lieu, Manichaean technici termini in the Liber scholiorum of Theorore bar Konai; Lin Wushu, Notes on the Title of the Dunhuang Manichaen Hymnscroll; G. Mikkelsen, Shared Features in the Terminology of Chinese Nestorian and Manichaean texts; E. Morano, A Manichaean oratio dominicana; G. Quispel, Plotinus and the Jewish Gnostikoi; C. Reck, The Tribulations of Human Existence: A Sogdian Fragment Corresponding to a Passage of Burz'y's Preface to Kal'lah wa Dimnah; S. Richter, Arbeiten am koptisch-manichaischen Psalmenbuch, Teil 1 - ein Zwischenbericht; J. Reis, La conversion de saint Augustin du manicheisme au catholicisme: controverses anciennes et positions recentes; T.A. Sala, Theoretical Diversity in Manichaean Eschatology; W.Sundermann, Was the ?rdhang Mani's Picture-book; A. van Tongerloo, The Buddha's First Encounter in a Manichaean Old Uighur Text; J. Tubach, Die Thomas-Psalmen und der Mani-Junger Thomas.
Emerging from Darkness
Author: Paul MireckiPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004439722
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Modern interpretation of the Manichaean religious tradition requires a firm foundation in the sober and meticulous reconstruction of highly fragmentary sources. The studies collected in this volume contribute to such a foundation by bringing new primary texts to the public for the first time, extracting new data from previously known sources, and defining and delimiting important but previously neglected sets of material. The studies are authored by an international group of leading scholars in the fields of ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern studies, comparative religion, early Christianity, patristics, art history, Turkic studies and Coptology. The textual and art historical materials examined possess distinctive histories, character and significance representing the broad geographical range of Manichaeism from Algeria to China. By elucidating these essential remains of the Manichaean religion, the comprehensive treatments contained in Emerging from Darkness provide a provocative picture of Manichaeism as a diverse and productive tradition in a variety of settings and media. The volume will be foundational for future scholarly studies on the sources presented and for studies in Manichaeism and late antique religions in general.
Mani's Pictures
Author: Zsuzsanna GulácsiPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004308946
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 555
Book Description
The founder of Manichaeism, Mani (216-274/277 CE), not only wrote down his teachings to prevent their adulteration, but also created a set of paintings—the Book of Pictures—to be used in the context of oral instruction. That pictorial handscroll and its later editions became canonical art for Mani's followers for a millennium afterwards. This richly illustrated study systematically explores the artistic culture of religious instruction of the Manichaeans based on textual and artistic evidence. It discusses the doctrinal themes (soteriology, prophetology, theology, and cosmology) depicted in Mani’s canonical pictures. Moreover, it identifies 10th-century fragments of canonical picture books, as well as select didactic images adapted to other, non-canonical art objects (murals, hanging scrolls, mortuary banners, and illuminated liturgical manuscripts) in Uygur Central Asia and Tang-Ming China.
Mani in Dublin
Author: Siegfried G. RichterPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004289127
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
In 2009 the Seventh International Conference of Manichaean Studies was held at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin. The 22 selected papers of this volume offer a deep insight into the faith of Manichaean communities ranging from the very beginning of the 3rd century up to the last traces of worship today. Among others the authors deal with sources from Augustin, John the Grammarian, Ephrem the Syrian and further sources written in Coptic, Sogdian, Middle Persian, Parthian and Chinese. Several studies about Manichaean art and iconography offer a visual impression, which gives a new opportunity for understanding the religion of Light.