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Practicing Gnosis: ritual, magic, theurgy, and liturgy in Nag Hammadi, Manichaean and other ancient literature : essays in honor of Birger A. Pearson

Practicing Gnosis: ritual, magic, theurgy, and liturgy in Nag Hammadi, Manichaean and other ancient literature : essays in honor of Birger A. Pearson
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ISBN 9004256296 (hardcover)
9789004256293 (hardcover)
Title Practicing Gnosis : ritual, magic, theurgy, and liturgy in Nag Hammadi, Manichaean and other ancient literature : essays in honor of Birger A. Pearson / edited by April D. DeConick, Gregory Shaw, John D. Turner
Publisher Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013
Physical desc. ix, 571 pages ; illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series Nag Hammadi and Manichaean studies 85
Note Donation.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents For Birger Pearson: a scholar who both studies and embodies syncretism / George W.E. Nickelsburg -- Religionsgeschichtliche Scule, Religionswissenschaft, piano, oboe and bourbon / Gerald James Larson -- Birger Pearson: scholar, professor and mentor / Gregory Shaw -- Birger Albert Pearson: a bibliography -- Section 1: Initiatory practices. The road for the souls is through the planets: the mysteries of the Ophians mapped / April D. DeConick -- Ecstatic religion in the Roman cult of Mithras / Roger Beck -- The Gospel of Philip as Gnostic initiatory discourse / Bas van Os -- Becoming invisible: rending the veil and hermeneutic of secrecy in the Gospel of Philip / Eliot Wolfson -- Ritual in the Second book of Jeu / Erin Evans -- Death on the Nile: Egyptian codices, Gnosticism, and early Christian books of the dead / Nicola Denzey Lewis -- Section 2: Recurrent practices. Going to church with the Valentinians / Einar Thomassen -- Practicing 'repentence' on the path to Gnosis in Exegesis on the soul Madeleine Scopello -- Opening the way of writing: semiotic metaphysics in the Book of Thoth / Edward Butler -- 'I worship and glorify': Manichaean liturgy and piety in Kellis' Prayer of the emanations / Fernando Bermejo Rubio -- The Manichaean weekly confession / Jason BeDuhn -- Ritual ingenuity in the Mandean Scroll of exalted kingship / Jorunn Buckley -- Section 3: Therapeutic practices. Natural, magical, scientific or religious? a guide to theories of healing / Naomi Janowitz -- Astrological medicine in Gnostic traditions / Grant Adamson -- The persistence of ritual in the magical Book of Mary and the angels: P.Heid. Inv. Kopt. 685 / Marvin Meyer -- Image and word: performative ritual and material culture in the Aramaic incantation bowls / Rebecca Lesses -- Section 4: Ecstatic practices. From baptismal vision to mystical union with the One: the case of the Sethian Gnostics / John D. Turner -- Marcosian rituals for prophecy and apolytrosis / Niclas Förster -- Ritual in the Hekhalot literature / James Davila -- Section 5: Philosophic practices. The platonizing Sethian Gnostic interpretation of Plato's Sophist / Zeke Mazur -- Did Plotinus' 'friends' still go to church? communal rituals and ascent apocalypses / Michael Williams -- The meaning of 'one': plurality and unity in Plotinus and later neoplatonism / Kevin Corrigan -- Theurgy and the Platonist's luminous body / Gregory Shaw.
Person as subject Pearson, Birger A. (Birger Albert) 1934-
Subject Gnosticism -- History
Added name(s) De Conick, April D.
Shaw, Gregory 1951-
Turner, John Douglas
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