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The Manichaean body : in discipline and ritual / Jason David BeDuhn.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 354 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 0801874610
  • 9780801874611
  • 0801862701
  • 9780801862700
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Manichaean body.DDC classification:
  • 299/.932 21
LOC classification:
  • BT1410 .B43 2000eb
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  • online - EBSCO
  • 11.19
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Contents:
Contents -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTE ON TEXTS AND TRANSLITERATIONS -- One: Out of the Past -- Two: Disciplinary Regimens -- Three: Disciplinary Rationales -- Four: Alimentary Rites -- Five: Alimentary Rationales -- Six: The Liberation of the Embodied Self -- Seven: “Ein Etwas am Leibe� -- Table of Textual References -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Index -- PLATES
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)75618

Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-348) and index.

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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.

Contents -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTE ON TEXTS AND TRANSLITERATIONS -- One: Out of the Past -- Two: Disciplinary Regimens -- Three: Disciplinary Rationales -- Four: Alimentary Rites -- Five: Alimentary Rationales -- Six: The Liberation of the Embodied Self -- Seven: “Ein Etwas am Leibe� -- Table of Textual References -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Index -- PLATES