Religion and the everyday life of Manichaeans in Kellis: beyond light and darkness

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...

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Main Author: Brand, Mattias 1986- (Author)
Format: Thesis Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston Brill [2022]
Series:Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies 102
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Summary: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"
Item Description:Die Dissertation erschien unter dem Titel: "The Manichaeans of Kellis : religion, community, and everyday life"
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Physical Description:XV, 409 Seiten 13 Illustrationen (schwarz-weiß) 25 cm
ISBN:9789004508224

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