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The Mandaeans--Baptizers of Iraq and Iran

Author : Karen Baker
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532619707
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book The Mandaeans--Baptizers of Iraq and Iran written by Karen Baker and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The secrets of a complex belief system that have sustained the Mandaeans in their centuries-old native lands in Iraq and Iran have been collapsing before their eyes. This little-known Gnostic sect has been hidden from global awareness until now. With a passion for the obscure, Karen Baker has delved into this secret sect, exploring the effects of the turmoil they have faced in their homeland, and are now facing in Diaspora. The Iraqi and Iranian Mandaeans have fled their homes with nothing more than the clothing on their backs, being thrust into the status of refugees, watching their traditions and cultures crumble as they encounter new lands and new cultures. This book discusses the potential receptivity of Mandaeans to Christianity through several perspectives including an evaluation of their relationship to the Gnosticism of the first through third centuries CE as well as its syncretic adaptations to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It will be of interest to those interested in little-known cultures from a historical and religious perspective; those involved with refugees and immigrants; and those who desire to understand the foundational beliefs of Mandaeism.

Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran

Author : Lady Ethel Stefana Drower
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran written by Lady Ethel Stefana Drower and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1937 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mandaeans

Author : Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198035008
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Mandaeans written by Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mandaeans are a Gnostic sect that arose in the middle east around the same time as Christianity. What little study of the religion there has been has focused on the ancient Mandaeans and their relation to early Christianity. Buckley examines the lives and religion of contemporary Mandaeans, who live mainly in Iran and Iraq but also in New York and San Diego. She provides a comprehensive introduction to the religion and shows how its ancient texts inform the living religion, and vice versa.

The Mandaeans—Baptizers of Iraq and Iran

Author : Karen Baker
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498246206
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book The Mandaeans—Baptizers of Iraq and Iran written by Karen Baker and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The secrets of a complex belief system that have sustained the Mandaeans in their centuries-old native lands in Iraq and Iran have been collapsing before their eyes. This little-known Gnostic sect has been hidden from global awareness until now. With a passion for the obscure, Karen Baker has delved into this secret sect, exploring the effects of the turmoil they have faced in their homeland, and are now facing in Diaspora. The Iraqi and Iranian Mandaeans have fled their homes with nothing more than the clothing on their backs, being thrust into the status of refugees, watching their traditions and cultures crumble as they encounter new lands and new cultures. This book discusses the potential receptivity of Mandaeans to Christianity through several perspectives including an evaluation of their relationship to the Gnosticism of the first through third centuries CE as well as its syncretic adaptations to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. It will be of interest to those interested in little-known cultures from a historical and religious perspective; those involved with refugees and immigrants; and those who desire to understand the foundational beliefs of Mandaeism.

The Mandaean Book of John

Author : Charles G. Häberl
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110487861
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Mandaean Book of John written by Charles G. Häberl and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-11-18 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the degree of popular fascination with Gnostic religions, it is surprising how few pay attention to the one such religion that has survived from antiquity until the present day: Mandaism. Mandaeans, who esteem John the Baptist as the most famous adherent to their religion, have in our time found themselves driven from their historic homelands by war and oppression. Today, they are a community in crisis, but they provide us with unparalleled access to a library of ancient Gnostic scriptures, as part of the living tradition that has sustained them across the centuries. Gnostic texts such as these have caught popular interest in recent times, as traditional assumptions about the original forms and cultural contexts of related religious traditions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, have been called into question. However, we can learn only so much from texts in isolation from their own contexts. Mandaean literature uniquely allows us not only to increase our knowledge about Gnosticism, and by extension all these other religions, but also to observe the relationship between Gnostic texts, rituals, beliefs, and living practices, both historically and in the present day.

John the Baptist and the Last Gnostics

Author : Andrew Phillip Smith
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1780289138
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book John the Baptist and the Last Gnostics written by Andrew Phillip Smith and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are there still Gnostics and can their roots be chased back to John the Baptist? Among the casualties of the western intervention in Iraq and the recent activities of ISIS are the Mandeans of Southern Iraq. These peace-loving people are now fleeing to the west . They are the last Gnostics, the only surviving remnant of the ancient sects who taught the direct knowledge of God, created their own gospels and myths and were persecuted as heretical by the church in the second and third centuries. The Mandeans place weekly river baptisms at the centre of their religious life and the primary exemplar of their religion is none other than John the Baptist. What is the real history of this mysterious and long lived sect? Can the Mandean peoples really be traced back to the first century? And who was John the Baptist? This book follows the history of the Mandeans from their present plight back through their earliest encounters with the West, their place in Islamic counties, their possible influence on the Templars, back to their origins as a first century baptismal sect connected to John the Baptist and beyond.

The Haran Gawaitha

Author : E.S. Drower
Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 107875912X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (787 download)

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Download or read book The Haran Gawaitha written by E.S. Drower and published by Dalcassian Publishing Company. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Haran Gawaita (Mandaic "Inner Haran" or "Inner Hauran") is a Mandaean text which purports to tell the history of the Mandaeans and their arrival in Media as "Nasoraeans" from Jerusalem

Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms

Author : Gerard Russell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471114724
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms written by Gerard Russell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its reputation for religious intolerance, the Middle East has long sheltered many distinctive and strange faiths: one regards the Greek prophets as incarnations of God, another reveres Lucifer in the form of a peacock, and yet another believes that their followers are reincarnated beings who have existed in various forms for thousands of years. These religions represent the last vestiges of the magnificent civilizations in ancient history: Persia, Babylon, Egypt in the time of the Pharaohs. Their followers have learned how to survive foreign attacks and the perils of assimilation. But today, with the Middle East in turmoil, they face greater challenges than ever before. In Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms, former diplomat Gerard Russell ventures to the distant, nearly impassable regions where these mysterious religions still cling to survival. He lives alongside the Mandaeans and Ezidis of Iraq, the Zoroastrians of Iran, the Copts of Egypt, and others. He learns their histories, participates in their rituals, and comes to understand the threats to their communities. Historically a tolerant faith, Islam has, since the early 20th century, witnessed the rise of militant, extremist sects. This development, along with the rippling effects of Western invasion, now pose existential threats to these minority faiths. And as more and more of their youth flee to the West in search of greater freedoms and job prospects, these religions face the dire possibility of extinction. Drawing on his extensive travels and archival research, Russell provides an essential record of the past, present, and perilous future of these remarkable religions.

The Mandaean Gnostic Religion

Author : Brikha Nasoraia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788195082414
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (824 download)

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Download or read book The Mandaean Gnostic Religion written by Brikha Nasoraia and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mandaeans, commonly called the Followers of John the Baptist, are the longest surviving Gnostics, and this book is the first in-depth study of their practices, especially their baptismal rites, and their teachings of deep knowing in mystical literature and fascinating stick-figure art. Mostly from Iraq and Iran, through persecution the Mandaeans have been scattered around the globe.

The Secret Adam

Author : E. S. Drower
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532697635
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Adam written by E. S. Drower and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Mandaeans

Author : Edmondo F. Lupieri
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802833500
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book The Mandaeans written by Edmondo F. Lupieri and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2001-11-07 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book is made even more valuable by the inclusion of an extensive anthology of translated Mandaean texts, complete with notes. This collection of writings presents the spiritual world of Mandaeanism with fragments of mythical-theological texts and pages of ethical and historical meditations."--BOOK JACKET.

Ginza Rba

Author : Majid Fandi Al-Mubaraki
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780958570527
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Ginza Rba written by Majid Fandi Al-Mubaraki and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Mandaic Dictionary

Author : E. S. Drower
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725272040
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book A Mandaic Dictionary written by E. S. Drower and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mandaean Studies

Author : Svend Aage Frederik Dichmann Pallis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Mandaean Studies written by Svend Aage Frederik Dichmann Pallis and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran

Author : Patricia Crone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139510762
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book The Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran written by Patricia Crone and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patricia Crone's book is about the Iranian response to the Muslim penetration of the Iranian countryside, the revolts subsequently triggered there and the religious communities that these revolts revealed. The book also describes a complex of religious ideas that, however varied in space and unstable over time, has demonstrated a remarkable persistence in Iran across a period of two millennia. The central thesis is that this complex of ideas has been endemic to the mountain population of Iran and occasionally become epidemic with major consequences for the country, most strikingly in the revolts examined here and in the rise of the Safavids who imposed Shi'ism on Iran. This learned and engaging book by one of the most influential scholars of early Islamic history casts entirely new light on the nature of religion in pre-Islamic Iran and on the persistence of Iranian religious beliefs both outside and inside Islam after the Arab conquest.

Yārsān of Iran, Socio-Political Changes and Migration

Author : S. Behnaz Hosseini
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811526354
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Yārsān of Iran, Socio-Political Changes and Migration written by S. Behnaz Hosseini and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-02-07 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how socio-political surroundings have affected the evolution of Yārsāni religious thought and why the Yārsāni religious belief, despite its fundamental disagreement with Islamic tenets, has been affiliated with Islam. It also considers the historical context and socio-religious milieu in which the Yārsāni belief appropriates religious forces to survive, how Yārsānis experience their religion in Islamic society, and what differences are significant in their lived experiences. The author explores how the experience of worship influences real life for the Yārsānis from the perspectives of sociology, behaviorism, content analysis, cultural studies and ethnography in Iran and diaspora with focus on Sweden. Yārsāni followers became known as those who “don’t tell secrets,” primarily because they were not allowed to promote and advertise their religion in public, but recently have started to reveal their religion, especially in social media. This book discovers the transformation of this religion, and in particular in which context an individual can change the content of religion, and bring about new ideas regarding religion and belief.

John the Baptist and the Last Gnostics

Author : Andrew Philip Smith
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 178028991X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book John the Baptist and the Last Gnostics written by Andrew Philip Smith and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are there still Gnostics and can their roots be chased back to John the Baptist? Among the casualties of the western intervention in Iraq and the recent activities of ISIS are the Mandeans of Southern Iraq. These peace-loving people are now fleeing to the west . They are the last Gnostics, the only surviving remnant of the ancient sects who taught the direct knowledge of God, created their own gospels and myths and were persecuted as heretical by the church in the second and third centuries. The Mandeans place weekly river baptisms at the centre of their religious life and the primary exemplar of their religion is none other than John the Baptist. What is the real history of this mysterious and long lived sect? Can the Mandean peoples really be traced back to the first century? And who was John the Baptist? This book follows the history of the Mandeans from their present plight back through their earliest encounters with the West, their place in Islamic counties, their possible influence on the Templars, back to their origins as a first century baptismal sect connected to John the Baptist and beyond.