New Light on Manichaeism

Jason David BeDuhn, Ph.D. (1995) in Comparative Study of Religion, Indiana University, is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Northern Arizona University, author of The Manichaean Body (Johns Hopkins 2000), and co-editor of three previous volumes in the NHMS series on the subject of Manichaeism.

• CONTENTSA Religion of Deeds: Scepticism in the Doctrinally Liberal Manichaeism of Faustus and Augustine Jason David BeDuhnThe Conversation of John the Orthodox with a Manichaean: An Analysis of Its Sources and Its Significance for Manichaean StudiesByard BennettThe Mani Logion: ‘The purification that was spoken about is that which comes through gnosis’ (CMC 84, 9-12)Luigi CirilloManichaeism Among the Uygurs: The Uygur Khan of the Bokug ClanLarry ClarkManichaean Time-Management: Laymen between Religious and Secular DutiesIris ColditzCharacteristics of Manichaeism in Roman AfricaJ. Kevin CoyleMani’s Account of Other Religions According to the Coptic Synaxeis CodexWolf-Peter FunkHow We Know the Exact Year the Archegos Left BaghdadCyril GlasséAn Experiment with Digital Reconstruction with a Manichaean Book Painting: The Work of the Religion Scene (MIK III 4974 recto)Zsuzsanna GulácsiThe Manichaean Church between Earth and ParadiseClaudia LeuriniMedieval Manichaean and Nestorian Remains in the Zayton (Quanzhou) of Marco PoloSamuel N. C. LieuSukhāvatī and the Light-world: Pure Land Elements in the Chinese Manichaean Eulogy of the Light-worldGunner MikkelsenThe Beginning of Mani’s Psalm Wuzurgān Āfrīwan in Parthian and Middle PersianEnrico MoranoThe Sogdian Version of Mani’s Letter of the SealChristiane ReckSnatches of the Middle Iranian “Tale of the Five Brothers”Christiane ReckA Manichaean Collection of Letters and a List of Mani’s Letters in Middle PersianWerner Sundermann