Description: Offers the latest discoveries and insights into the Manichaean religion from leading scholars in the field, including new reconstructions of literary and artistic sources and analyses of the religion's origins and development across North Africa and West, Central, and East Asia.
Brief description: Jason David BeDuhn, Ph.D. (1995) in Comparative Study of Religion, Indiana University, is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Northern Arizona University, author of The Manichaean Body (Johns Hopkins 2000), and co-editor of three previous volumes in the NHMS series on the subject of Manichaeism.