Catharism

Also known as Catharists, Cathari

Catharism ( ; from the , "the pure ones") was a Christian quasi-dualist and pseudo-Gnostic movement which thrived in northern Italy and southern France between the 12th and 14th centuries. Denounced as a heretical sect by the Catholic Church, its followers were attacked first by the Albigensian Crusade and later by the Medieval Inquisition, which eradicated them by 1350. Thousands were slaughtered, hanged, or burned at the stake.

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Catharism was a Christian movement that emerged in medieval Italy and France (12th-14th centuries) and was condemned by the Catholic Church as heresy for its quasi-dualist and pseudo-Gnostic beliefs. The movement was violently suppressed through the Albigensian Crusade and the Medieval Inquisition, which killed thousands of followers and completely eliminated the sect by 1350.

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Religion.name: Catharism
Religion.type: Pseudo-Gnostic Christian movement
Religion.founded_date: c. 1200s
Religion.theology: Dualistic
Religion.branched_from: Roman Catholicism
Religion.associations: ChristianityGnosticism (disputed)
Religion.defunct: 14th century

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dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 1321-00-00
inception: 1100-00-00
Commons category: Cathars

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Term
Origins
Beliefs
Cosmology
Christology
Other beliefs
Texts
Organization
Sacraments
Social relationships
Hierarchy
Role of women
Suppression
Albigensian Crusade
Massacre
Treaty and persecution
Annihilation
Genocide
Later history
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Interrogation of heretics
Historical and current scholarship
Debate on the nature and existence of Catharism
In art and music
Reinterpretations
Protestants
Baptists
See also
Notes
References
Sources
Further reading
External links

Followers were known as Cathars or Albigensians, after the French city Albi where the movement first took hold, but referred to themselves as Good Christians. They believed that there were not one, but two Godsthe good God of Heaven and the evil god of this age (). According to tradition, Cathars believed that the good God was the God of the New Testament faith and creator of the spiritual realm. Many Cathars identified the evil god as Satan, the master of the physical world, who was the same as the God of the Old Testament.