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Manichaean Church in Kellis

Social Networks and Religious Identity in Late Antique Egypt

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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The Manichaean Church in Kellis presents an in-depth study of social organisation within the religious movement known as Manichaeism in Roman Egypt. In particular, it employs papyri from Kellis (Ismant el-Kharab), a village in the Dakhleh Oasis, to explore the socio-religious world of lay Manichaeans in the fourth century CE. Manichaeism has often been perceived as an elitist, esoteric religion. Challenging this view, Teigen draws on social network theory and cultural sociology, and engages with the study of lived ancient religion, in order to apprehend how laypeople in Kellis appropriated Manichaean identity and practice in their everyday lives. This perspective, he argues, not only provides a better understanding of Manichaeism: it also has wider implications for how we understand late antique ‘religion’ as a social phenomenon

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Utgivningsdatum2021-06-10
Mått155 x 235 x 29 mm
Vikt735 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies
Antal sidor348
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004459762

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List of Tables, Figures, and Network ChartsAbbreviations for Frequently Cited SourcesA Note on Citations and TranslationsPrelude1 Introduction: Mani’s Church and Social Life1 Mani’s Church2 The Sources3 Manichaean Social Organisation4 Theoretical FrameworkPart 1: The Social World of Fourth-Century Kellis2 Life in Kellis: Society and Religion in an Oasis Town1 On the Road to the Oasis2 The Dakhleh Oasis3 The Village of Kellis4 Oasis Society and Religious Movements3 The Pamour Family: Familial and Economic Networks1 The Circles of House 32 The Pamour Family3 The Family Business4 Conclusions4 Village Networks: The Small World of Fourth-Century Kellis1 Meet the Neighbours2 Oasis Notables3 The Village Elite4 Villagers in the Valley5 A Trade Association?6 The Village NetworkPart 2: A Manichaean Church: The Light Mind at Kellis5 Manichaean Cues: Religious Identity in Everyday Life1 Religious Identity and Lived Religion2 Signalling Identity: Religious Cues in Papyrus Letters3 Religious Cues in the Circles of House 34 Manichaean Cues5 The Light Mind at Kellis6 Conclusions6 Manichaean Networks: The Social Networks of the Laity at Kellis1 The Social Composition of Manichaeism2 Manichaean Social Networks3 Counting Manichaeans4 ‘Open’ or ‘Bounded’ Network?5 Networks, Dissemination, and Tensions7 Manichaean Books: Textual Practices, Community, and the Literary Texts1 A Manichaean World2 Manichaean Literature3 Textual Practices4 Textual Community, Manichaean Identity8 Manichaean Rituals: Elect and Laity at Kellis1 Identifying Elect2 Auditor Almsgiving3 Elect Services4 Conclusions9 The Manichaean Church: Elect Organisation1 Itinerancy and Group-Making2 Hierarchy and Supervision3 Communal Spaces – ‘Monasteries’?4 A Networked Manichaean Church5 Conclusions10 Conclusion: A Church in the World1 Manichaean Identity2 The Elite-Lay Dichotomy3 Reordering ‘Religion’4 The Fate of the ChurchBibliographyIndex