The video explores Mandaeism, an ethno-religious tradition that some scholars consider the only surviving Gnostic sect from antiquity. Mandaeans identify themselves as people of knowledge, venerate ...

(The Conversation) — Mandaeans are followers of ancient Gnostic religion, whose traditional homeland was the region of Iraq and Iran. Today, this small minority lives in many parts of the world, ...

Gnosticism is a loose, collective term for a variety of religious systems from the second and third centuries. They originated mostly in the eastern Mediterranean and its environs—a territory lying ...

What do Harry Potter, the Star Wars series, The Matrix, Masonry, New Age and the Raelian cult, which claims to have cloned the first baby, have in common? Their ideological soil. Identical esoteric ...

With John complete and Matthew on the way, I felt like some variety here on the blog. Besides the Greek and Latin languages, one of the big focuses of Classics (the field I got my degree in) is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gnostic religions view the material world as the product of a mistake in the heavenly realm, the creation of one or more inferior ...