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Books on: zoroastrian

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Zoroastrian Rituals in Context

Book by Michael Stausberg; Brill, 2004

Subjects:

Zoroastrianism--Rituals

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

ZOROASTRIAN RITUALS IN CONTEXT NUMEN BOOK SERIES STUDIES IN THE...CII PE??O 7 8 '-. ? ,...:- 0(' '/6 8'- ' ZOROASTRIAN RITUALS IN CONTEXT EDITED BY MICHAEL STAUSBERG...Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Zoroastrian rituals in context / edited by Michael Stausberg...
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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 Dawn and Twilight of Zoroastrianism

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

Subjects:

Zoroastrianism

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...RELIGION The Dawn and Twilight of Zoroastrianism The Dawn and Twilight of Zoroastrianism R. C. ZAEHNER Spalding Professor...Iranian Mithra and Roman Mithras--The Pre- Zoroastrian Mithra--Mithra, Compact and Warlord--Mithra...
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The Ethical Religion of Zoroaster

Book by Miles Menander Dawson; Macmillan, 1931

Subjects:

Zoroastrianism

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...ethics. Dhalla The High Priests Zoroastrian Theology . To Zoroaster is due the...maintain the ancient reputation of the Zoroastrian code of morals and are most highly and...Priest Dhalla, of the Parsis, in his Zoroastrian Theology, says "Zoroastrian virtues...
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Religious Minorities in Iran

Book by Eliz Sanasarian; Cambridge University Press, 2000

Subjects:

Iran--Politics And Government--1979-1997, Iran--Religion, Religion And State--Iran, Religious Minorities--Iran, Religious Tolerance--Iran

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

Eliz Sanasarian's book explores the political and ideological relationship between non-Muslim religious minorities in Iran and the state during the formative years of the Islamic Republic to the present day. Her analysis is based on a detailed examination of the history and experiences of the ...
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Eliz Sanasarian's book explores the political and ideological relationship between non-Muslim religious minorities in Iran and the state during the formative years of the Islamic Republic to the present day. Her analysis is based on a detailed examination of the history and experiences of the Armenians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Jews, Zoroastrians, Bahais and Iranian Christians, and describes how these communities have responded to state policies regarding minorities. Many of her findings are constructed out of personal interviews with members of these communities. While the book is essentially an empirical study, it also highlights more general questions associated with exclusion and marginalisation and the role of the state in defining these boundaries. This is an important and original book which will make a significant contribution to the literature on minorities and to the workings of the Islamic Republic.
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Journal Articles on: zoroastrian

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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

...purity attributed to ritual spaces by Zoroastrians or Mazdeans can be probed in the context...individuals and the communities. As the Zoroastrian case demonstrates, a separation of pure...historiographical framework. THE SPECIFIC CASE Zoroastrian or Mazdean doctrine from the period...
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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...her interpretation of the history of Zoroastrianism. Although her argument is inevitably...probable that the later Ardasirs of the Zoroastrian community were named in pious remembrance...
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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

Zoroastrians in Britain by W.W. Malandra By JOHN R. HINNELLS. Oxford: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1996. Pp...series of publications dating back to 1978 Professor Hinnells has studied various aspects of the history of Zoroastrianism and Zoroastrians in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with special attention devoted to the Parsis. The present work...
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Kuwabara's Misleading Thesis on Bukhara and the Family Name An

Journal article by Antonino Forte; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 116, 1996

Subjects:

Kuwabara Jitsuzo--Philosophy, Names, Personal--China, Yuan, Chen--Philosophy

Collections: Philosophy, History, Entire Library

...People from Parthia did not believe in Zoroastrianism nor in Manichaeism (sic). Considering...evident that they were practitioners of Zoroastrianism. In the whole territory of Liangzhou...times there were many practitioners of Zoroastrianism. Thus, I think that rather than connecting...
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Pahlavi Kirrenidan: Traces of Iranian Creation Mythology

Journal article by Bruce Lincoln; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 117, 1997

Subjects:

Grammar, Comparative and general--Verb, Iran--Languages, Mythology--Iran

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Haoma and fire, the two chief items of Zoroastrian ritual, restores the primordial unity...Hermann Guntert have suggested that in pre-Zoroastrian Iran, it was Yima who played the role...50 (1922): 271-75. 2 H. W. Bailey, Zoroastrian Problems in the Ninth-Century Books...

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Magazine Articles on: zoroastrian

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In the Name of Religions

Magazine article by Diana L. Eck; The Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 17, Autumn 1993

Subjects:

Religion--International aspects, Religious gatherings--International aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Catholics, adherents of the Shinto and Zoroastrian traditions--all met together to speak...the voices of Hindus, Buddhists, and Zoroastrians. Indias eloquent Swami Vivekananda spoke...called scripture--the Avesta of the Zoroastrian tradition, the Vedas, Brahmanas, and...
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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

...artistic legacies but remained loyal to Zoroastrianism and other older customs. The two cultures...Persian language (Pahlavi), received Zoroastrianism, and further promoted the arts. The...by the blessing of Ahura Mazda, the Zoroastrian God, while winged angels float about...
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Hit the Road: Sample the Silk Road's Natural and Cultural Wealth with Geographical's Pick of the Operators Specialising in the Region

Magazine article; Geographical, Vol. 76, May 2004

Collections: Entire Library

...Road outposts, trek to spectacular glaciers, ride through wildly coloured desert canyons and bathe in hot springs. Marvel at Zoroastrian fire-temples, the Wakhan Corridor on the Afghanistan border, Peak Communism and beautiful Lake IskanderkuI. Youll even learn...
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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

...Sikh, Unitarian Universalist, and Zoroastrian members; we meet once a week. This...prayer beads, a coin stamped with a Zoroastrian emblem, a clock: all are objects that...that many of us were unaware of, like Zoroastrianism and the Bahai Faith, we have now learned...
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The Living Fire

Magazine article; The Middle East, April 1993

Subjects:

Arts--Fairs, festivals, etc., Kurdistan--Popular culture, London, England--Fairs, festivals, etc.

Collections: Entire Library

...Kurds are an ancient people, who some say can trace their ancestry to the Medes. In pre-Islamic times many Kurds followed the Zoroastrian faith, which involved numerous ceremonies of fire. Today, the traditional lighting of fires at the Kurdish new year or Newroz...

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Newspaper Articles on: 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 story...especially the part that dealt with the Zoroastrian Parsis of India. The specter of extinction...diaspora of younger, marriageable-age Zoroastrians to Europe and North America. More...
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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

...And theres a good chance they were actually Zoroastrian magi, not mere royalty from afar. Zoroastrianism started in Persia, in what is now Iran, thousands of years before Christ. Many Zoroastrians and others believe they were, indeed, magi...
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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

...know that the religion he championed, Zoroastrianism, with its reverence for the symbolism...dualist theology that is at the heart of Zoroastrianism: good versus evil, light against darkness...it- would come to an end." As for Zoroastrian texts, we have a limited number of...
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The Rise of Mercury; EXCLUSIVE FREDDIE THE FAMILY ALBUM

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), September 2, 2006

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

...flower garland and skull cap of the Zoroastrian religion aged four, as a gangly seven-year-old...believed his exotic background and familys Zoroastrian beliefs didnt exactly fit in with his...Elvis quiffs GARLAND: Aged four in his Zoroastrian gear BIG BROTHER: With sister Kashmira...
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Answers to Correspondents

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 27, 1996

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

...the worship, through fire, of Ahura-mazda (or Ormazd), the god of creation, light and goodness. The sacred writings of the Zoroastrian religion, the Zend-Avesta, had great influence on Persian kings of that time. Also Sprach (Thus Spake) Zarathustra was...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: zoroastrian

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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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Mithra

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...god of Persia and India (where he was called Mitra). Until the 6th cent. b.c., Mithra was apparently a minor figure in the Zoroastrian system. Under the Achaemenids, Mithra became increasingly important, until he appeared in the 5th cent. b.c. as the principal...
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Yazd

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...served by a railroad. An old city, Yazd was an important Zoroastrian center in Sassanid times. It was conquered by the Arabs in...several medieval mosques, religious schools, and tombs. Its Zoroastrian community, the largest in Iran, erected a modern fire temple...
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Parsis

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...sez, parsez , religious community of India, practicing Zoroastrianism . The Parsis (numbering about 75,000) are concentrated in...ancient Pahlavi scriptures and are faithful to much of the Zoroastrian dogma. The Parsis deny the frequent assertion that they...
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Anquetil-Duperron, Abraham Hyacinthe

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

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

...180 manuscripts, which he gave to the Royal Library. His three-volume translation of the Zend-Avesta (1771) introduced Zoroastrian texts to Europe. Anquetil-Duperron also translated the Upanishads into Latin (1804) and wrote several works on India...

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