Bogomilism | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 15/12/2018

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Bogomilism


00:01:14 1 Etymology
00:02:39 2 Sources
00:03:45 3 History
00:03:54 3.1 Paulicians
00:05:36 3.2 Origins
00:07:40 3.3 Spread of bogomilism in the Balkans
00:11:58 3.4 Social factors
00:12:46 3.5 Religious factors
00:13:15 3.6 Connections to the royal court
00:13:51 4 Doctrine
00:14:00 4.1 Source texts
00:14:38 4.2 Teaching
00:15:45 4.3 Dualist beliefs and customs
00:16:44 4.4 Christology and the Trinity
00:18:22 4.5 Opposition to institutions and materialism
00:18:32 5 Legacy
00:18:57 5.1 Link with later religious movements
00:19:08 5.2 In modern and popular culture
00:22:11 6 See also
00:22:21 7 References
00:22:34 8 Sources
00:24:45 9 Further reading
00:26:44 10 External links



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Bogomilism (Bulgarian: Богомилство, Serbo-Croatian: Bogumilstvo/Богумилство) was a Christian neo-Gnostic or dualist sect founded in the First Bulgarian Empire by the priest Bogomil during the reign of Tsar Peter I in the 10th century. It most probably arose in what is today the region of Macedonia as a response to the social stratification that occurred with the introduction of feudalism and as a form of political movement and opposition to the Bulgarian state and the church.
The Bogomils called for a return to what they considered to be early spiritual teaching, rejecting the ecclesiastical hierarchy, and their primary political tendencies were resistance to the state and church authorities. This helped the movement spread quickly in the Balkans, gradually expanding throughout the Byzantine Empire and later reaching Kievan Rus', Bosnia (Bosnian Church), Dalmatia, Serbia, Italy, and France (Cathars).
The Bogomils were dualists or Gnostics in that they believed in a world within the body and a world outside the body. They did not use the Christian cross, nor build churches, as they revered their gifted form and considered their body to be the temple. This gave rise to many forms of practice to cleanse oneself through purging, fasting, celebrating and dancing.