The Manichaean Body: In Discipline and Ritual
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Extinct since the 14th century, the ancient religion of Manichaeism, once extended from western Europe to China. BeDuhn (religion, Northern Arizona U.) attempts to reconstruct the Manichaean disciplinary and ritual complex as a system and explain how the Manichaeans interpreted this system from the viewpoint of their own cultural moment. He argues that the reconstruction of such ritual as the daily sacred meal (a variation of which still exists in Zoroastrian practice) reveals charges of gnosticism and other popular conceptions of Manichaeism to be false. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsNote on Texts and Transliterations1Out of the Past12Disciplinary Regimens253Disciplinary Rationales694Alimentary Rites1265Alimentary Rationales1636The Liberation of the Embodied Self2097"Ein Etwas am Leibe"234Table of Textual References273Notes277Bibliography337Index349
