Verhehlung bei den Manichäern
Through dissimulation a religious community can protect itself against a hostile environment either by concealing its own beliefs or also by adjusting them to the values of the surrounding culture in order to make them acceptable. Since Manichaeans were persecuted almost everywhere, dissimulation ma...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | German |
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Brepols
2011
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Annali di scienze religiose
Year: 2011, Volume: 4, Pages: 83-110 |
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| Summary: | Through dissimulation a religious community can protect itself against a hostile environment either by concealing its own beliefs or also by adjusting them to the values of the surrounding culture in order to make them acceptable. Since Manichaeans were persecuted almost everywhere, dissimulation may well have been practiced by common believers although evidence from the sources shows that leading church members tended to openly declare their faith if they were put to trial and to bear the consequences up to the point of martyrdom. The Manichaeism had moreover a remarkable capacity of adapting its doctrine to the speech and the traditions of local religions with which it came into contact, mainly with Zoroastrianism, with Buddhism and in some rare case with late Hellenistic esoteric teachings. The Christian element instead was not the outcome of an adaptation work, because the figure, preaching and life of Jesus (viz. the peculiarly realistic account of his Passion) belong to the core of the Manichaean message of redemption in all its historical forms. |
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| ISSN: | 2294-8775 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Annali di scienze religiose
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1484/J.ASR.1.102570 |