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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Manichaeism, she says, was “a genuinely new form of Christianity” with a “genuinely different metaphysics”. It was certainly ...

In “Quarterlife,” Devika Rege uses three very different protagonists to explore the country’s ideological ferment—setting ...

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