Pleasantville Religions

Emergence of the first Gnostic new religious movements; Church of Mani; Church of Pistis Sophia; Mandaeism. Engages the movie, “Pleasantville.”</p

The Pi of Politics

The reaction of the early heresy hunters, including Irenaeus, Tertullian, Hippolytus, and Epiphanius; questions of Gnostic Spirituality and its relationship to politics, counterculturalism, transgression, subversion, and heresy. Engages the movie, “Pi.”</p