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Women in Western and Eastern Manichaeism
Selected Papers from the International Conference Les femmes dans le manichéisme occidental et oriental held in Paris, University of Paris Sorbonne, 27-28 June 2014
Series: - Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies, Volume: 101
Volume Editor:
The exceptional place women held in Manichaeism, in everyday life or myth, is the object of this book. Relying on firsthand Manichaean texts in several languages and on polemical sources, as well as on iconography, the various papers analyze aspects of womenâs social engagement by spreading Maniâs doctrine, working to support the community, or corresponding with other Manichaean groups. Topics such as womenâs relation to the body and elect or hearer status are also investigated. The major role played by female entities in the myth is enlightened through occidental and oriental texts and paintings discovered in Central Asia and China.
Madeleine Scopello, FAHA, Corresponding Fellow of Institut de France, is em. Research director at CNRS and em. Studies director at EPHE, Paris. She has published many articles and books, including Femme, Gnose et Manichéisme (Brill, 2005).
Preface
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
1 Ambivalent Beauty: Divine Transgendering in the âSeduction of the Archonsâ and Elsewhere in Manichaean Myth
âJason David BeDuhn
2 Trois témoignages polémiques sur lâengagement des femmes dans la diffusion de la religion de Mani. Analyse historique et lexicale
âMadeleine Scopello
3 La «âMère de la Vieâ». Identité et fonctions
âFernando Bermejo-Rubio
4 Lâusage manichéen du terme Enthymèsis dans les Kephalaia coptes de Berlin
âJean-Daniel Dubois
5 The Manichaean Women in the Greek and Coptic Letters from Kellis
âMajella Franzmann
6 âYou Being for Us Helpers, and Worthy Patrons â¦â (P. Kell. Copt. 31). Manichaean Gift-Exchange in the Village of Kellis
âMattias Brand
7 The (Female) Manichaean Body: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Eastern Manichaean Texts
âAdam Benkato and Sam Langsdale
8 Digital Restoration of an Icon of the Light Maiden Preserved on a Uygur Manichaean Mortuary Banner from 10th-Century Kocho
âZsuzsanna Gulácsi
9 The Figure of the Virgin of Light in the New Chinese Manichaica
âGábor Kósa
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
1 Ambivalent Beauty: Divine Transgendering in the âSeduction of the Archonsâ and Elsewhere in Manichaean Myth
âJason David BeDuhn
2 Trois témoignages polémiques sur lâengagement des femmes dans la diffusion de la religion de Mani. Analyse historique et lexicale
âMadeleine Scopello
3 La «âMère de la Vieâ». Identité et fonctions
âFernando Bermejo-Rubio
4 Lâusage manichéen du terme Enthymèsis dans les Kephalaia coptes de Berlin
âJean-Daniel Dubois
5 The Manichaean Women in the Greek and Coptic Letters from Kellis
âMajella Franzmann
6 âYou Being for Us Helpers, and Worthy Patrons â¦â (P. Kell. Copt. 31). Manichaean Gift-Exchange in the Village of Kellis
âMattias Brand
7 The (Female) Manichaean Body: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Eastern Manichaean Texts
âAdam Benkato and Sam Langsdale
8 Digital Restoration of an Icon of the Light Maiden Preserved on a Uygur Manichaean Mortuary Banner from 10th-Century Kocho
âZsuzsanna Gulácsi
9 The Figure of the Virgin of Light in the New Chinese Manichaica
âGábor Kósa
This book will interest institutes, academic libraries, specialists, and post-graduate students in the fields of Manichaeism, History of religions, History of Christianity, History of art, Late antiquity, Oriental studies, Gender studies