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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Zoroastrianism
The editors of the Wiley Blackwell Companion to Zoroastrianism ought to be lauded for presenting a superb compendium on the state of scholarship in Zoroastrian Studies. Not only does its treatment of more traditional questions pertaining to Zarathustra’s time, homeland, and Gâthâs evince new and refreshing insights, but an array of novel inquiries into Zoroastrian hermeneutics and cosmogonies, or the issue of gender, provides for an exciting and stimulating read. Altogether, the Wiley Blackwell Companion to Zoroastrianism is a must for the informed and specialized reader alike, and a major contribution to the field for many years to come.
M. Rahim Shayegan, UCLA
Michael Stausberg (Edited by), M Stausberg (Author), Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina (Edited by), Anna Tessmann (With)
9781444331356, Wiley
Hardback, published 29 May 2015
704 pages
25.4 x 17.8 x 3.8 cm, 1.211 kg
This is the first ever comprehensive English-language survey of Zoroastrianism, one of the oldest living religions
Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xi Aims and Scope xiii A Note on Transcriptions xix Abbreviations xxiii Introduction: Scholarship on Zoroastrianism 1 Part I Zarathustra Revisited 19 1 Zarathustra’s Time and Homeland: Geographical Perspectives 21 2 Zarathustra’s Time and Homeland: Linguistic Perspectives 31 3 Interpretations of Zarathustra and the Gāthās 39 a The Gāthās 39 b The Gāthās, Said to Be of Zarathustra 44 c Dimensions of the Gāthās as Poetry 51 d The Gāthās as Myth and Ritual 59 4 Zarathustra: Post-Gathic Trajectories 69 Part II Periods, Regions, and Contexts 83 5 Religion and Politics in Pre‐Islamic Iran 85 6 Zoroastrianism under Islamic Rule 103 7 Armenian and Georgian Zoroastrianism 119 8 Zoroastrianism in Central Asia 129 9 Zoroastrianism in the Far East 147 10 The Parsis 157 11 Zoroastrians in Modern Iran 173 12 The Zoroastrian Diaspora 191 Part III Structures, Discourses, and Dimensions 209 13 Theologies and Hermeneutics 211 14 Cosmologies and Astrology 235 15 Myths, Legends, Eschatologies 259 16 Gender 273 17 Law in Pre‐Modern Zoroastrianism 289 18 Law and Modern Zoroastrians 299 Part IV Practices and Sites 313 19 Ethics 315 20 Prayer 333 21 Purity and Pollution / The Body 345 22 Rituals 363 23 Festivals and the Calendar 379 24 Religious Sites and Physical Structures 393 Part V Intersections 407 25 Early India and Iran 409 26 Judaism 423 27 The Classical World 437 28 From Miθra to Roman Mithras 451 29 Christianity 457 30 Manichaeism in Iran 477 31 Islam 491 32 The Yezidi and Yarsan Traditions 499 33 The Bahā’ī Faith 505 Part VI Primary Sources 517 34 Primary Sources: Avestan and Pahlavi 519 35 Primary Sources: New Persian 529 36 Primary Sources: Gujarati 543 Bibliography 555 Index of People, Places, and Topics 629 Index Locorum 655
Michael Stausberg and Yuhan Sohrab‐Dinshaw Vevaina
Frantz Grenet
Almut Hintze
Helmut Humbach
Jean Kellens
Martin Schwartz
Prods Oktor Skjarvo
Michael Stausberg
Albert de Jong
Touraj Daryaee
Albert de Jong
Frantz Grenet
Takeshi Aoki
John R. Hinnells
Michael Stausberg
John R. Hinnells
Yuhan Sohrab‐Dinshaw Vevaina
Antonio Panaino
Carlo G. Cereti
Jenny Rose
Maria Macuch
Mitra Sharafi
Alberto Cantera
Firoze M. Kotwal and Philip G. Kreyenbroek
Alan V. Williams
Michael Stausberg and Ramiyar P. Karanjia
Jenny Rose
Jamsheed K. Choksy
Prods Oktor Skjarvo
Yaakov Elman and Shai Secunda
Martin L. West
Richard L. Gordon
Marco Frenschkowski
Manfred Hutter
Shaul Shaked
Philip G. Kreyenbroek
Moojan Momen
Miguel Ángel Andrés‐Toledo
Daniel J. Sheffield
Daniel J. Sheffield
Subject Areas: Religion & beliefs [HR]
