The texts date from the time of the domination of the Uigurs (744-840 and 866-1368), by the end of which
Manicheism had long since ceded its supremacy to Buddhism (beginning of the eleventh century), with only small Manichean groups surviving into the thirteenth century; it is assumed, however, that many of the Middle Persian and Parthian manuscripts were copies of manuscripts from the third-sixth centuries (p.
In addition, the biographer recognises that life exists beyond
Manicheism, in other words, beyond Massie's claims.
- The dissemination of various religions like Buddhism, Zoroastrianism,
Manicheism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Manicheism, whose concept intersects with Gnostic dualism, is the most important religion based on the eternal conflict between good and evil.
It's about
Manicheism but also racism because the white refers to goodness and the black, badness." (18) She transforms this reductive way of seeing and thinking into something complex and confused to question our gaze and our awareness.
When the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob did not interest him, he turned his attention to philosophy, "then fell into
Manicheism, and only after that discovered what would remain his modus operandi for the rest of his life.
Mailer also approaches Reich in his
Manicheism and in his creation of a private cosmology which one is unsure whether to take as poetic construct or sheer superstition.
It is precisely its absence that preserves the values at stake, concealing their
Manicheism and the presumed untouchability of the historical object, the event itself.
That is why the framework of analysis provided by DeRougemont's Love in the Western World (1939) is quite appropriate, even though the author diagnosed the erotic pathology of the West starting with the twelfth century, when European literature, and French literature in particular were heavily influenced by the dualistic heresies of Early Christianity: gnosis,
manicheism, catharism, etc.
Buddhism entered China, and so too did
Manicheism, Zoroastrianism and the Christianity of the East.