The Manichaean body : in discipline and ritual /
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 discipl...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2000.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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