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Gnosticism in modern times
Contemporary religious movement
Gnosticism in modern times
Gnosticism in modern times, commonly known as neo-Gnosticism, includes a variety of contemporary religious movements, stemming from Gnostic ideas and systems from ancient Roman society. The root word, gnosis, means knowledge, originating in Jewish and Christian social environments in the first and second century A.D. The Mandaeans are an ancient Gnostic ethnoreligious group that have survived and are found today in Iran, Iraq and diaspora communities in North America, Western Europe and Australia. The late 19th century saw the publication of popular sympathetic studies making use of recently rediscovered source materials. In this period there was also the revival of a Gnostic religious movement in France. The emergence of the Nag Hammadi library in 1945 greatly increased the amount of source material available. Its translation from Coptic into English and other modern languages in 1977 resulted in a wide dissemination, which had observable influence on several modern figures and upon modern...
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