Manichaean dualism, an ancient belief in the eternal struggle between good and evil, shapes many modern populist narratives.

No tradition affirms this as Manichaeism does. Founded by an Iraqi, it was a syncretic religion that revered Jesus, Zoroaster and the Buddha. Over 500 years, it expanded from the Mediterranean Sea ...

Mani, a third-century preacher, healer and public sage from Sasanian Mesopotamia, lived at a pivotal time and place in the development of the major religions. He frequented the courts of the Persian ...

During the next century, Christians perished in China completely. With the fall of the Tang Dynasty in 907, China once again ...

Examples of proselytizing faiths are Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam; non-proselytizing faiths include Hinduism, Judaism, and Shinto. All of these were religions of the ...

Are there any traces of Nestorianism and Manichaeism in Central Asia today? Were elements of these belief systems incorporated into other religions? There are some archeological remains, and further ...

Additionally, the relations between Europe and China and the way Europe "reads" China are not autonomous factors but are ...

To the highly cosmopolitan environment of lower Iraq, Christianity, like Manichaeism, was a protest against ethnic religions, not a way of acquiring one: Manichaeism transcended the Chaldean and ...

Other religions surged along this same route—Manichaeism, Christianity, Zoroastrianism, and later, Islam—but none influenced China so deeply as Buddhism, whose migration from India began ...

The case of All the Light We Cannot See, based on Anthony Doerr’s novel set in World War II that won the Pulitzer for fiction in 2015, is paradigmatic of what abounds on Netflix. The four-episode ...

The late Christopher Hitchens’s work was of a piece, good and bad.