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The history of early Christianity is of continuing significance and interest to a sizable portion of the world's population. This study focuses on the history of Christianity in Egypt from its earliest recorded origins to the Council of Chalcedon in 451 CE, when the Eyptian Coptic Church became a national religion because of its separation from the Catholic University. Within this time period...
1907. The author_s principal objective in publishing these essays was to present all the materials for impartial judgment of the scriptures and religion of the Parsis. Contents: Essay I. History of the Researches into the Sacred Writings and Religion of the Parsis; Essay II. Languages of the Parsi Scriptures; Essay III. The Zend-Avesta, or the Scripture of the Parsis; and Essay IV. The Zoroastrian...
Comment penser l‘institutionnalisation religieuse à l‘ère de la dérégulation du croire? Qui plus est, du point de vue de mouvances religieuses alternatives, partagent une déesse, quelques traditions et sont dépourvues d‘un dogme commun? À travers l‘exemple de la Wicca et à l‘aide d‘une approche néo-institutionnaliste, nous proposons un schéma basé sur les principes d‘isomorphisme, axé sur des vec...
Defining the term Gnosis and its relationship to Gnosticism, this book indicates why Gnosis may be preferable and sketches out the main problems. It then treats the sources, both those in the church fathers and heresiologists, and the more recent Nag Hammadi finds. It goes on to discuss early forms of Gnosis in antiquity, Jewish and Christian (New Testament) and the early Gnostics; the main repres...
Etude clinique de la perception extra-sensorielle sous l'hypnose
"New Light on Manichaeism" provides the latest discoveries and insights into the Manichaean religion throughout its more than one thousand year history, ranging from glimpses into the life and thought of Mani himself, to developments in doctrine and practice in the religion's North African, Iranian, Central Asian, and Chinese settings. The volume includes contributions from the leading schola...
A study of teaching techniques described in the works of Lynn Andrews who is often compared to Carlos Castaneda
Gnosticism was a wide-ranging religious movement of the first millennium CE—with earlier antecedents and later flourishings—whose adherents sought salvation through knowledge and personal religious experience. Gnostic writings offer striking perspectives on both early Christian and non-Christian thought. For example, some gnostic texts suggest that god should be celebrated as both mother and fathe...
This volume contains 22 papers originally delivered at the Society of Biblical Literature's 1995 commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the Nag Hammadi Library. Of these papers, five focus on the theme "Past, Present, and Future Research on the Nag Hammadi Codices" (J.M. Robinson, S. Emmel, B.A. Pearson, H.-M. Schenke, E.M. Yamauchi); thirteen stem from three seminars respe...
Early Iranians believed evil had to have a source outside of God, which led to the concept of an entity as powerful and utterly evil as God is potent and good. These two forces, good and evil, which have always vied for superiority, needed helpers in this struggle. According to the Zoroastrians, every entity had to take sides, from the cosmic level to the microcosmic self. One of the results of th...
Гэта кніга, 18-я ў серыі «Бібліятэка Бацькаўшчыны», прысвечана мінуламу і сучаснасці беларускай дыяспары ў Вялікабрытаніі. Аўтар разглядае гісторыю беларуска-брытанскіх кантактаў, перадумовы прыезду беларусаў у гэтую краіну ў 1940-я, працэс стварэння і дзейнасць нацыянальных арганізацый розных напрамкаў. Кніга Наталлі Гардзіенкі – гэта сапраўдная энцыклапедыя беларускага жыцця ў Вялікабрытаніі. А...
A Grammar of Modern Indo-European is a complete reference guide to a living Indo-European language. It contains a comprehensive description of Proto-Indo-European grammar, and offers an analysis of the complexities of the prehistoric language and its reconstruction from its descendant languages. Written in a fresh and accessible style, and illustrated with maps, figures and tables, this book focus...
Kassia the Nun offers a unique glimpse into ninth-century Byzantium as the only woman whose works were included in the corpus of liturgical hymns. Kassia the Nun in Context explores Kassia’s thought on Christology, on gender, and on monasticism itself. Kurt Sherry’s analysis provides readers with an opportunity to know this woman of remarkable intellect, wit, and piety by drawing primarily on h...
Книга о принципах и методах сравнительного изучения христианского богослужения разных традиций.
