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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

BeDuhn, Jason.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manichaeism--Discipline--History.

Manichaeism.

Manichaeism--Rituals--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 354 p., [6] p. of plates ) ill. ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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:

Intro

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-348) and index.

ISBN:

9780801874611

0801874610

OCLC:

51494045

Publisher Number:

2027/heb30844 hdl