{"product_id":"new-light-on-manichaeism-papers-from-the-sixth-international-congress-on-manichaeism-9789004172852","title":"New Light on Manichaeism: Papers from the Sixth International Congress on Manichaeism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNew 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS  A Religion of Deeds: Scepticism in the Doctrinally Liberal Manichaeism of Faustus and Augustine  Jason David BeDuhn  The Conversation of John the Orthodox with a Manichaean: An Analysis of Its Sources and Its Significance for Manichaean Studies Byard Bennett  The Mani Logion: ‘The purification that was spoken about is that which comes through gnosis’  (CMC 84, 9-12) Luigi Cirillo  Manichaeism Among the Uygurs: The Uygur Khan of the Bokug Clan Larry Clark  Manichaean Time-Management: Laymen between Religious and Secular Duties Iris Colditz  Characteristics of Manichaeism in Roman Africa\t J. Kevin Coyle  Mani’s Account of Other Religions According to the Coptic Synaxeis Codex Wolf-Peter Funk  How We Know the Exact Year the Archegos Left Baghdad\t\t\t\t Cyril Glassé  An Experiment with Digital Reconstruction with a Manichaean Book Painting: The Work of the Religion Scene (MIK III 4974 recto) Zsuzsanna Gulácsi  The Manichaean Church between Earth and Paradise\t\t\t Claudia Leurini \t\t\t\t\t Medieval Manichaean and Nestorian Remains in the Zayton (Quanzhou) of Marco Polo Samuel N. C. Lieu  Sukhāvatī and the Light-world: Pure Land Elements in the Chinese Manichaean Eulogy of the Light-world Gunner Mikkelsen  The Beginning of Mani’s Psalm Wuzurgān Āfrīwan in Parthian and Middle Persian Enrico Morano  The Sogdian Version of Mani’s Letter of the Seal\t Christiane Reck  Snatches of the Middle Iranian “Tale of the Five Brothers”\t\t Christiane Reck \t\t A Manichaean Collection of Letters and a List of Mani’s Letters in Middle Persian Werner Sundermann","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210612007255,"sku":"9789004172852","price":146.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/new-light-on-manichaeism-papers-from-the-sixth-international-congress-on-manichaeism-9789004172852","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}