12. The Manichaean Cosmogonical Myth As A ‘Re-Written Bible’

Smagina, Eugenia

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“…(Rubio, 2008, pp. 83-85) Smagina (2011) opines that the Manichean ideology was so torn between theogony and cosmogony, angelology and demonology, eschatology and apocalypse that it is next to impossible for an individual to escape this binary opposition-infested world (p. 202).…”

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Manichaeism in Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth: Its Implications for Postcolonial Nations

Abedin

2023

Philos. Prog.

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In the course of his groundbreaking work, The Wretched of the Earth, Frantz Fanon has employed a splendid array of metaphors to reflect on the essential fabric of a colonized society. However, the Manichean metaphor is the best of them, which he has used to forge a comparison between colonialism and Manichaeism, a dualistic religious movement founded in ancient Persia sometime during the third century CE. This metaphor is singular in the sense that both colonialism and Manichaeism have in common a dichotomic vision to look at the world, a stupendous effort to exert their influences on the better part of the world and a messianic zeal to preach their enlightenment values at every opportunity. In this article, I am going to elucidate the way Fanon has made use of the metaphor to designate the identity formation of both the colonizer and the colonized in addition to critically analysing their similitude in vision, will and enthusiasm. In so doing, I will bring into play the recent accretions of Manichean religious and postcolonial studies in order to situate Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth in the framework of post-colonial praxis. Philosophy and Progress, Vol#71-72; No#1-2; Jan-Dec 2022 P 153-177

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Manichaeism in Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth: Its Implications for Postcolonial Nations

Abedin

2023

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Mani, Augustine and the vision of God

Gardner

2013

HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies

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The recovery of the text of the Manichaean daily prayers provides an opportunity to consider how their recitation and practice may have influenced the young Augustine. It is argued that the prayers focused the mental and indeed physical gaze of the believer on the manifestation of God in this present reality, and through that upon the transcendent eternal world of future hope. If one accepts that Augustine as a Manichaean catechumen would have partaken in this most basic of the community’s religious duties then one must consider what effect this could have had on the development of his own striking and influential teachings about the vision of God. The article discusses evident allusions to this Manichaean practice in Augustine’s writings, and suggests that its influence continued through his later life despite his disavowal of his former faith. In particular, attention is drawn to similarities between the Manichaean ‘new aeon’ and the ‘heaven of heaven’ in Augustine’s writings, where the pure of heart can look forward to unmediated contemplation of God

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12. The Manichaean Cosmogonical Myth As A ‘Re-Written Bible’

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Manichaeism in Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth: Its Implications for Postcolonial Nations

Manichaeism in Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth: Its Implications for Postcolonial Nations

Mani, Augustine and the vision of God

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