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Manichaeism and Buddhism in Contact: The Significance of the Uyghur History and Its Literary Tradition

Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2023
The exchanges between Manichaeism and Buddhism are one of the most-discussed topics in the religious study of Central Asia. Old Uyghur materials are often used in these discussions because the Uyghurs experienced the religious shift from Manichaeism to ...
Yukiyo Kasai
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Maniheizm Hakkında Bir İnceleme: Mesajlarıyla Yaşayan Din

Cumhuriyet İlahiyat Dergisi, 2023
Bu çalışmada, Maniheizm düşüncesinin temel kodlarını incelemek ve Maniheizm takipçilerinin yeryüzünden silindikten sonra düşüncelerinin yok olup olmadığını tartışmak amaçlanmaktadır.
Mehmet Mekin Meçin
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Wonders and Healings at the Crossroads of Manichaeism, Buddhism and Zoroastrianism in Eastern Iran and Central Asia

Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2023
The early Sasanian period witnessed a variety of religious beliefs in competition. The clash between Kirdīr and Mani represents just an episode of the triumph the Mazdean church over Manichaeism, as well as over the other religious formations listed in ...
Andrea Piras
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Cao’an in the Ancestral World: Contemporary Manichaeism-Related Belief and Familial Ethics in Southeastern China

Religions
The Cao’an (草庵), situated in the Fujian Province of China, stands as a rare Manichean relic that has long attracted scholarly interest. In the Sunei (苏内) village where the Cao’an is located, there are numerous texts, narratives, and religious practices ...
Yanbin Wang
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'Religion' in Late Antique Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism: Developing a Term in Counterpoint

Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2020
This article evaluates the development of a generic term for ‘religion’ in late antique Manichaeism and Zoroastrianism. It examines linguistic indications of the use of dēn/δēn as a generic term in the Manichaean Middle Iranian corpora, i.e.
Kianoosh Rezania
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Reviving Manichaeism with the Evil God Challenge

Religions
In contemporary analytic philosophy of religion, the evil God challenge has been developed by several authors as a parody argument. Proponents of this challenge contend that, given the goods in our world, the hypothesis of an omnipotent, omniscient ...
Zoheir Bagheri Noaparast
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Manichaeism: Unity and Divergences

Philosophy of Religion: Analytic Researches
The article deals with the main components of the Manichaean religion. One of the main questions in the study of Manichaeism is: which component in this teaching is primary, Gnostic-Christian or Zoroastrian. The research of terms, in particular, of the proper names in Coptic, Greek, Latin, Syrian and Middle Iranian languages, allows us to assert that a
E. Smagina
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System justification and democracy: Is liberal democracy part of the status quo? [PDF]

Br J Soc Psychol
Abstract Research has conceptualized system justification as an overall perception of legitimacy of the status quo. However, there is mixed evidence to determine whether individuals construe political systems and values that uphold them as part of such status quo.
Vargas Salfate S, Scheffauer R, Gil de Zúñiga H.   +2 more
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Comparing Islam with other Late Antique Religions: Examining Theological Parallels with Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Manichaeism

Islamic Studies Review, 2023
This article argues that Islamic theological doctrines emerged out of broad late antique religious trends. Such trends were reflected in Judaism and Christianity, but also transcended them.
Aria Nakissa
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Archbishop William King’s Critique of Manichaeism in the Treatise "On the Origin of Evil" (1702)

Studia z Historii Filozofii, 2023
This paper examines the Irish philosopher, theologian and divine William King’s (1650–1729) discussion of Manichaeism in the essay De Origine Mali (On the Origin of Evil) (1702).
Przemysław Spryszak
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