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Books on: Zoroastrianism OR Zoroastrian

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Zoroastrian Rituals in Context

Book by Michael Stausberg; Brill, 2004

Subjects:

Zoroastrianism--Rituals

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...04-13131-0 (alk. paper) 1. Zoroastrianism-Rituals. I. Stausberg, Michael...Initiations' in Theory and in Zoroastrianism 77 J SNOEK Meta-Theoretical...and interactions Students of Zoroastrianism generally agree that rituals...
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The Dawn and Twilight of Zoroastrianism

Book by R. C. Zaehner; G. P. Putnams Sons, 1961

Subjects:

Zoroastrianism

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...OF RELIGION The Dawn and Twilight of Zoroastrianism The Dawn and Twilight of Zoroastrianism R. C. ZAEHNER Spalding Professor of...ACHAEMENIDS AND MAGI Primitive and Catholic Zoroastrianism--The God of Darius the Great--The Zoroastrianism...
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The Treasure of the Magi: A Study of Modern Zoroastrianism

Book by James Hope Moulton; Humphrey Milford, 1917

Subjects:

Parsees, Zoroastrianism

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...THE MAGI A STUDY OF MODERN ZOROASTRIANISM BY JAMES HOPE MOULTON...in lecturing to the Parsis on Zoroastrianism, and he received from that community...intercourse with those who profess Zoroastrianism which is required in order to...
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Zoroastrians in Britain: The Ratanbai Katrak Lectures, University of Oxford 1985

Book by John R. Hinnells; Clarendon Press, 1996

Subjects:

Great Britain--Religion--20th Century, Zoroastrianism--Great Britain

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Zoroastrianism is the religion of ancient Iran, dating back centuries before the coming of Islam. It stresses the duality between goodness and evil, light and happiness, and darkness and suffering. The Zoroastrians are also the oldest South Asian minority in Britain--with a history going back to ...
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Zoroastrianism is the religion of ancient Iran, dating back centuries before the coming of Islam. It stresses the duality between goodness and evil, light and happiness, and darkness and suffering. The Zoroastrians are also the oldest South Asian minority in Britain--with a history going back to 1724. This is the first study of British Zoroastrianism, covering personalities, traditions, and the contemporary concerns of this enduring but little known ancient religion.
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The Ethical Religion of Zoroaster

Book by Miles Menander Dawson; Macmillan, 1931

Subjects:

Zoroastrianism

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Professor Jackson, and in Early Zoroastrianism , by Professor Moulton. The...Macmillan , Moulton Early Zoroastrianism Wil liams and Norgate...feature prominence in a book on Zoroastrianism, were it not that this has been...

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Journal Articles on: Zoroastrianism OR Zoroastrian

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Artaxerxes, Ardasir, and Bahman

Journal article by Said Amir Arjomand; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 118, 1998

Subjects:

Ardasir (Persian king)--Research, Artaxerxes II (Persian king)--Research, Bahman (Persian king)--Research, Iran--Religion, Zoroastrianism--Research

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Inasmuch as her insistence on the Zoroastrianism of the Achaemenids is not universally...interpretation of the history of Zoroastrianism. Although her argument is inevitably...Artaxerxes II and for his adherence to Zoroastrianism that has been overlooked by Boyce...
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Bibliography of Stanley Insler

Journal article; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 122, 2002

Subjects:

Insler, Stanley--Works, Sanskrit language, Vedas--Bibliography, Vedas--Research, Zoroastrianism--Bibliography, Zoroastrianism--Research

Collections: History, Entire Library
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An Anagram in the Gathas: Yasna 51.4-5

Journal article by Stephanie W. Jamison; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 122, 2002

Subjects:

Anagrams--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Zoroaster--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Zoroastrianism

Collections: History, Entire Library
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To Cut off, Purify, and Make Whole: Historiographical and Ecclesiastical Conceptions of Ritual Space

Journal article by Jamsheed K. Choksy; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 123, 2003

Subjects:

Rites and ceremonies--Research, Ritual--Research

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...writings of the medieval period of Zoroastrianism (ca. 500-1500), a universal battle...cannot be applied precisely to Zoroastrianism. Zoroastrians equate religion...Indo-European *kwen- "holy") in Zoroastrianism is closer to the idea of order...
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Zoroastrians in Britain

Journal article by W.W. Malandra; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 119, 1999

Subjects:

Books--Reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Hinnells has studied various aspects of the history of Zoroastrianism and Zoroastrians in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries...jargon. The great majority of Western scholars of Zoroastrianism have concentrated on the ancient forms of the religion...

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Magazine Articles on: Zoroastrianism OR Zoroastrian

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Notes & Dispatches: Bombay - India's Disappearing Vultures - the Mysterious Dwindling of the Subcontinent's Natural, and Vital, "Garbage Men"

Magazine article by Stephen Bodio; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 288, September 2001

Subjects:

Animal carriers of disease--Research, Birds as carriers of disease--Research, Birds--Extinction, Birds--Research, Bombay, India--Environmental aspects, Burial--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Extinction (Biology), Parsees--Religious aspects, Vultures--India, Zoroastrianism--India, Zoroastrianism--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...find a vastly different sight. Although the Parsis continue to stack their dead within the towers (their religion, Zoroastrianism, forbids them to contaminate earth, fire, or water with their corpses), the bodies remain unmolested except by the...
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The Character of Captain Ahab in Melville's 'Moby Dick.'

Magazine article by James W. Tuttleton; World and I, Vol. 13, February 1998

Subjects:

Captain Ahab--Criticism and interpretation, Characters and characteristics in literature--Criticism and interpretation, Literary characters--Criticism and interpretation, Moby Dick (Book)--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...that of the fire-worshiping Parsee Fedallah, is to Zoroastrianism. Zoroastrian belief held that the world was created...that Ahab had been a Quaker before his conversion to Zoroastrianism. Quakers are traditionally a nonviolent people. But...
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On the Path of Persian History : The Islamic Republic of Iran May Impose Its Will on a Reluctant Population, but This Does Not Deny Its Glorious Past as One of the Greatest Empires History Has Known

Magazine article by Eva Harnik; World and I, Vol. 16, December 2001

Subjects:

Iran--Description and travel

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...legacies but remained loyal to Zoroastrianism and other older customs. The...language (Pahlavi), received Zoroastrianism, and further promoted the arts...especially the restoration of Zoroastrianism. Ardashir and his successors...
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Learning the Language of Interfaith Dialogue*: The Religious Life Council at Princeton University

Magazine article by Dana Graef; Cross Currents, Vol. 55, Spring 2005

Subjects:

Muslims--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...smaller religions that many of us were unaware of, like Zoroastrianism and the Bahai Faith, we have now learned to empathize...religions without strong support systems on campus--Bahai, Zoroastrian, Hindu, Buddhist, and Sikh, for example--the Religious...
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Armageddon in the Bible

Magazine article by Gerald A. Larue; The Humanist, Vol. 59, November 1999

Subjects:

Bible (Sacred work)--Criticism and interpretation, End of the world--Religious aspects, Prophecy--Analysis

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...the impact of a new religion, Zoroastrianism, which would provide another...Zoroastrian belief challenged Jewish temple...predict the future, employing the Zoroastrian model: the world is in its final...

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Newspaper Articles on: Zoroastrianism OR Zoroastrian

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Correcting Some Misperceptions about Zoroastrianism

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 28, 1996

Subjects:

India

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Correcting some misperceptions about Zoroastrianism May I comment on an AP...we are strongly committed to Zoroastrianism. We are well organized through...interested in learning about Zoroastrianism. One last comment, please...
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Yazidis Risk Persecution, Attacks to Follow Religion; Many Emigrate from Iraq for Fear of Being Targeted by Muslims

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 22, 2007

Subjects:

Emigration and immigration, Muslims, Zoroastrianism

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...that practices a religion that is a mixture of Islam, Zoroastrianism, gnosticism, Judaism, Sufism and shamanism. Their...who practice a religion that is a mixture of Islam, Zoroastrianism, gnosticism, Judaism, Sufism and shamanism. The countrys...
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Just Who Were These Three Wise Men?

Newspaper article by Victoria Pierce; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), December 24, 2004

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...not mere royalty from afar. Zoroastrianism started in Persia, in what is...By the time of Jesus birth, Zoroastrianism had already existed for centuries...Now fewer than 150,000 follow Zoroastrianism. About 600 live in the Chicago...
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What Zarathustra Said 3,000 Years Ago and How It Filtered Down

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 13, 2003

Subjects:

Strauss, Richard

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...that the religion he championed, Zoroastrianism, with its reverence for the symbolism...theology that is at the heart of Zoroastrianism: good versus evil, light against...than the very basic notion that Zoroastrianism was a dualist theology). For...
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Fox Valley in 60 Seconds

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January 21, 2002

Subjects:

Geneva, Switzerland (City), Shaw, George Bernard

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Matteson, pastor of Faith Church of the Brethren in Batavia; Rohinton M. Rivetna, a lecturer on Zoroastrianism and one of the founders of the Zoroastrian Association of Metropolitan Chicago; and Yvor Stoakley, who serves on the local spiritual assembly...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: Zoroastrianism OR Zoroastrian

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Zoroastrianism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

ZOROASTRIANISM zo roas tre niz m, religion founded by Zoroaster...erroneously called the Vendidad. Other sources of Zoroastrianism are Achaemenid inscriptions, the writings of Herodotus...the Sassanids. Origins and Beliefs In its origins Zoroastrianism appears to have been the religious expression of the...
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Avesta , Zoroastrian Scriptures

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

AVESTA , Zoroastrian scriptures see Zoroastrianism . ____________________ The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright 2007, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Lernout Hauspie Speech Products N.V. All rights reserved.
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Parsis

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...parsez , religious community of India, practicing Zoroastrianism . The Parsis (numbering about 75,000) are concentrated...Pahlavi scriptures and are faithful to much of the Zoroastrian dogma. The Parsis deny the frequent assertion that...
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Magi

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...a pre-Zoroastrian religion, but nothing is known of it except by inference. After Zoroaster, Magian priests headed Zoroastrianism; the greatest was Saena. The Magi were revered by classic authors as wise men, and their reputed power over demons...
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Manichaeism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...elements from Gnosticism , Zoroastrianism , other Persian religions, Christianity...or Manichees) from orthodox Zoroastrian religious circles, and, after...Manichaeism by Christian, Islamic, and Zoroastrian polemicists. See also F. C. Burkitt...

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