Liturgical texts and practices in the ancient world

该项目旨在重建欧亚大陆最多样化和最有影响力的宗教传统之一的礼拜生活，从罗马时代的埃及到近代早期的中国：摩尼教。它以一种更深入的方式调查文化适应、时间发展和实践的统一，这有助于更广泛地支持宗教研究的学科。它期望通过对复杂文本的批判性编辑和新兴方法的使用来产生新的知识，以便在生活宗教方面对社区文献进行综合，全面的理解。预期的结果是方法论的进步和古代世界的一个方面的概况。

This project aims to reconstruct the liturgical life of one of the most diverse and influential religious traditions across Eurasia, from Roman Egypt to early modern China: the Manichaeans. It investigates cultural adaptation, chronological development and unity of practice in a deeper manner that helps support the discipline of religious studies more generally. It expects to generate new knowledge through the critical editing of complex texts and the employment of emergent methodologies for an integrated, holistic understanding of community literatures in terms of lived religion. Expected outcomes are advances to methodology and the profiling of one aspect of the ancient world.