Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran write by Lady Ethel Stefana Drower. This book was released on 1937. Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Mandaeans
The Mandaeans - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mandaeans write by Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley. This book was released on 2002-11-14. The Mandaeans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms
Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms write by Gerard Russell. This book was released on 2014-11-20. Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 Haran Gawaitha
The Haran Gawaitha - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Haran Gawaitha write by E.S. Drower. This book was released on . The Haran Gawaitha available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
The Mandaean Book of John
The Mandaean Book of John - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mandaean Book of John write by Charles G. Häberl. This book was released on 2019-11-18. The Mandaean Book of John available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
