Hit it in one with the English Civil War Protestant sects. The Ranters, the Diggers, the Muggletonians, the Fifth Monarchists, the Familists, the Grindletonians, the Philadelphians, the Socinians…such an amazing ferment of ideas and beliefs in a period of immense social and cultural upheaval. One of my favorite books that I read while an undergraduate was Christopher Hill’s The World Turned Upside Down, and it has stuck with me to this day.
I also am quite interested in historical Zoroastrianism and Manichaenism, two great world religions, both of them strongly dualist in nature, and both almost completely wiped out.
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