Women in Western and Eastern Manichaeism
Madeleine Scopello, Leiden: Brill, 2014
Description
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 women’s social engagement by spreading Mani’s doctrine, working to support the community, or corresponding with other Manichaean groups. Topics such as women’s 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.
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Table de matières
Chapter 1, Ambivalent Beauty: Divine Transgendering in the ‘Seduction of the Archons’ and Elsewhere in Manichaean Myth
Chapitre 2, Trois témoignages polémiques sur l’engagement des femmes dans la diffusion de la religion de Mani. Analyse historique et lexicale
Chapitre 3, La « Mère de la Vie ». Identité et fonctions
Chapitre 4, L’usage manichéen du terme Enthymèsis dans les Kephalaia coptes de Berlin
Chapter 5, The Manichaean Women in the Greek and Coptic Letters from Kellis
Chapter 6 ,“You Being for Us Helpers, and Worthy Patrons …” (P. Kell. Copt. 31). Manichaean Gift-Exchange in the Village of Kellis
Chapter 7, The (Female) Manichaean Body: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Eastern Manichaean Texts
Chapter 8, Digital Restoration of an Icon of the Light Maiden Preserved on a Uygur Manichaean Mortuary Banner from 10th-Century Kocho
Chapter 9, The Figure of the Virgin of Light in the New Chinese Manichaica
Lien
https://brill.com/view/title/61006?language=en&contents=toc-50344