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Simon Magus as the Archetype of Polemical Portrayals of Mani (Ephraim Nissan)
Manichaeism, which also eventually spread in the Roman Empire, having originated in the western (Aramaic-speaking rather than Iranic) territories of...
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Receptions of Simon Magus as an Archetype of the Heretic
This book about receptions of Simon Magus uncovers further facets of one who was held to be the evil archetype of heretics. Ephraim Nissan and...
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Flying Simon Magus: The Motif of Flight in Hagiography and Counter-biography (Ephraim Nissan)
The first section surveys selectively, in eight subsections, scholarly receptions of the narratives about Simon Magus. Was the historical Simon a...
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A Test Case for the Theodicy Problem
Why does a God of love not respond more palpably to a suffering world? The European Enlightenment may well be understood as the search for an...
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Salvation or Damnation: From Paul to Augustine
Paul wrote that salvation rests on God’s power of election. Against the common teaching, Origen argued that everyone would eventually be saved...
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Looking Back and Looking Forward from the Margin of the Margins
In this chapter I will seek to find my way to the margin of the margins, and to look forward and back from a theological perspective at our task in...
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Introduction
The authors describe the protests of Job, explain the nature of interfaith dialogue, and outline the project for the book.
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Missionary Work in China: Benign Ministry or State Subversion?
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has had, and continues to have, a complicated relationship with Christian missionaries. On the one hand,...
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An Islamized Mandaeism: Examining the Impacts of Shia Muslims on the Religionism of the Iranian Mandaeans
The long periods of Sabaean Mandaeans, an ethnic-religios community, co-existing among the Iranian major Shia communities have had profound impacts...
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Religious Fundamentalism as a Challenge for (Inter-)religious Education
Due to media coverage and political instrumentalization, religion is increasingly perceived in terms of fundamentalist tendencies. In fact, more and...
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Islam in Kurdistan: Religious Communities and Their Practices in Contemporary Northern Iraq
“Kurdish Islam” – what is that? The adjective is derived from a noun that names a people and their languages living in Eastern Anatolia, Northeastern...
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Yārsāni Religious Practice and Identity
This chapter focuses on understanding of the historical context and socioreligious milieu in which the Yārsāni belief appropriates religious forces...
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Maitreya’s Boundless Gaze: The Religious Implications of Maitreya Mega-Statues
Maitreya is one of the most popular of Buddhist images. Found in Mahayana, Theravada and Tibetan contexts, Maitreya appears both as a bodhisattva and...
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Augustine and the Inner-Self Meme
The focus in this chapter is on the very personal and introspective writings of St. Augustine of Hippo, author of one of the earliest...
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Islam in Kurdistan: Religious Communities and Their Practices in Contemporary Northern Iraq
“Kurdish Islam” – what is that? The adjective is derived from a noun that names a people and their languages living in Eastern Anatolia, Northeastern...
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Evangelization and Indigenous Communities in Korea, Seventh Century to Sixteenth Century
This chapter focuses on possible contacts between Koreans and Christianity from the seventh century to sixteenth century by introducing arguments and...
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Simon Magus in Arrigo Boito’s Opera Nerone (Ephraim Nissan)
Nerone (Nero), one of the operas by Arrigo Boito (Padua, 1842—Milan, 1918), the Italian librettist (he collaborated with Giuseppe Verdi), was...
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Research Overview
This opening chapter will present a structural and theoretical orientation of ethnoreligious of the Yārsān people that will be introduced, with...
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The Rings Parable in Latin Europe
This chapter focuses on Étienne de Bourbon’s exemplum, a fable that influenced later versions of the Parable of the Three Rings. The chapter...