Religion and the everyday life of Manichaeans in Kellis : beyond light and darkness
Mattias Brand
Bok · Engelsk · 2022
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| Omfang | XV, 409 sider
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| Opplysninger | 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 -- Matthaios's Grief: Manichaean Death Rituals -- Ision's Books: Scribal Culture and Access to Manichaean Texts -- Conclusion: Untidy History: Manichaeanness in Everyday Life.. - "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"--
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| ISBN | 9789004508224
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