
被遗忘王国的后裔
Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms
Gerard Russell · 初版 2014 年
2位读者提及
2次提及
尽管中东向来以宗教不宽容著称,但长期以来这里一直庇护着许多独特而奇异的信仰:有的将希腊先知视为上帝的化身,有的以孔雀的形象崇拜Lucifer,还有的相信信徒是历经数千年以不同形态存在的转世生灵。这些宗教代表着古代历史上辉煌文明的最后遗迹:波斯、巴比伦、法老时期的埃及。它们的信徒早已学会了如何在外部袭击和被同化的危险中求生。但是
Hacker News 上怎么说
正在加载完整评论……
……权威。归根结底,这两种做法表面上往往差不多,但这赋予了那些解读圣典的人更大的权力,并促使人们走向越来越极端的解读。我刚读了一本书,杰拉德·拉塞尔(Gerard Russell)写的《被遗忘王国的继承人》(Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms)。这是一本穿越中东的游记,探访了在过去约两千年中历经基督教和伊斯兰教冲击而幸存下来的小众宗教运动:曼达派、雅兹迪人、科普特基督徒……
…authority. In the end this often looks the same, but it lends much greater power to those who interpret sacred texts, and pushes people to more and more extreme interpretations. There's a book I just read, Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms by Gerard Russell. It's a travelogue though the Middle East meeting the small religious movements that survived Christianity and Islam over the last ~2000 years: Mandaeans, Yezidis, Coptic Christians,…
前阵子我读了一本叫《被遗忘王国的继承人》(Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms)的书,讲的是那些正在消逝且往往很冷门(至少对西方人而言)的中东宗教,其触角有时也会延伸到伊朗/波斯,如果我没记错的话,书里确实探讨了琐罗亚斯德教(也许是最不冷门……
A while back I read a book called Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms about disappearing, often-obscure (at least to Westerners) Middle Eastern religions, which stretched its scope over to Iran/Persia at times and IIRC did treat of Zoroastrianism (maybe the least-obscure…