The Other God: Dualist Religions from Antiquity to the Cathar Heresy

by Yuri Stoyanov

Book Overview

This fascinating book explores the evolution of religious dualism, the doctrine that man and cosmos are constant battlegrounds between forces of good and evil. It traces this evolution from late Egyptian religion and the revelations of Zoroaster and the Orphics in antiquity through the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Mithraic Mysteries, and the great Gnostic teachers to its revival in medieval Europe with the suppression of the Bogomils and the Cathars, heirs...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300082533
• ISBN13: 9780300082531
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 490 Pages
• Weight: 3.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.0" x 7.8"