Enciclopedia Cattolica

MANISMO

Manism

Volume VII · p. 1165 · 1951

English translation · Testo originale italiano

MANISMO. - Dal lat. manes «buoni», epiteto eufemistico riferito ai defunti, il m. è la teoria che spiega le origini delle religioni dal culto degli antanti.
MANISMO. - Dal lat. manes «buoni», epiteto eufemistico riferito ai defunti, il m. è la teoria che spiega le origini delle religioni dal culto degli antanti.

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

MANISM

From the Latin *manes* “the good ones,” an euphemistic epithet applied to the dead, manism is the theory that explains the origins of religions from the cult of the ancestors.

Already Euhemerus had maintained that the gods were originally illustrious men, kings, sages, priests,

64 parishes served by 167 diocesan priests and 60 regulars; it has a seminary, 18 male and 84 female religious communities (Ann. Pont., 1951, p. 263).

The city of M. is situated at 2,130 m. on the Central Cordillera; it was founded by the Antiquenni; it suffered serious damage in the earthquake of 1925. It is an agricultural and mining center. The diocese was created by Pope Leo XIII on 11 April 1900; it is a suffragan of Medellín.

Bibl.: Enc. Eur. Am., XXXII, pr. 918-19. Enrico Jossi