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Zarathustra's religion and his pastoral imagery
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ISBN: 9060212568 Year: 1975 Publisher: Leiden Leiden Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden Universitaire Pers Leiden

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Wrestling with the demons of the Pahlavi Widewdad
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ISBN: 9004269223 9789004269224 9789004269217 9004269215 1306858623 9781306858625 Year: 2014 Publisher: Boston

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The Pahlavi Widēwdād (Vidēvdād), The Law (Serving to Keep) Demons Away , a fifth-century Middle Persian commentary on the Avestan Vidēvdād , describes rules and regulations that serve to prevent pollution caused by dead matter, menstrual discharges, and other agents. It recognizes the perpetual presence of the demons, the forces of the Evil Spirit –forces that should be fought through law-abiding conduct. In spite of its formidable textual problems, the commentary provides an invaluable quarry for the rules of the Zoroastrian community through its citation of regulations for the conduct of its members. Many topics are covered, from jurisprudence to penalties, procedures for dealing with pollution, purification, and arrangements for funerals. Viewed together, they provide the reader with an exquisite interlace of a community’s concerns.


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Yezidism : between continuity and transformation
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ISBN: 9783447118002 3447118008 9783447392693 Year: 2021 Publisher: Wiesbaden Harrassowitz Verlag

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Zoroastrian rituals in context
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ISSN: 15709434 ISBN: 9004131310 9047412508 9789004131316 Year: 2004 Volume: 102. Publisher: Leiden : Brill,

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Rituals, it is agreed, play a prominent role in Zoroastrianism, one of the oldest continuous traditions of mankind. In this book, scholars from a broad range of disciplines make the first ever collective effort to address this issue. From a historical and geographical perspective, texts and contexts studied in these pages range from antiquity to modernity, all the way from Japan, China, India, Iran, Europe to California. The essays touch on questions of theory, ritual texts, change and performances, gender and professional religion (priesthood/lay-people). The rituals studied are placed in a broad scope of social and local settings ranging from the royal court to the needy, from the rural village to the urban metropolis, from the domestic to the public.

Parsism : the religion of Zoroaster
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ISBN: 9004062084 9789004062085 Year: 1980 Volume: 4 Publisher: Leiden Brill


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Zoroastrianism : an introduction
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ISBN: 1848850875 1848850883 9781848850873 9781848850880 Year: 2011 Volume: *1 Publisher: London : I. B. Tauris,

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"Zoroastrianism is one of the world's great ancient religions. In present-day Iran significant communities of Zoroastrians (who take their name from the founder of the faith, the remarkable religious reformer Zoroaster, or--in the old Avestan language--Zarathustra) still practise the rituals and teach the moral precepts that once undergirded the officially state-sanctioned faith of the mighty Sasanian empire. Beyond Iran, the Zoroastrian diaspora is significant especially in India, where the Gujurati-speaking community of exiles from post-Sasanian Iran call themselves 'Parsis'. But there are also significant Zoroastrian communities to be found elsewhere, such as in the USA, Britain and Canada, where western cultural contexts have shaped the religion in intriguing ways and directions. This new, thorough and wide-ranging introduction will appeal to anyone interested in discovering more about the faith that bequeathed the contrasting words 'Mary' and 'magic', and whose adherents still live according to the code of Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds. The central Zoroastrian concept that human beings are continually faced with a choice between the path of 'good' and 'evil', represented by the contrasting figures of Ahura Mazda and Ahriman, inspired thinkers as diverse as Voltaire, Mozart and Nietzsche. Jenny Rose shows why Zoroastrianism remains one of the world's most inspiring and perennially fascinating systems of ethics and belief"--Publisher description, p. [4] of cover.


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Les gathas : le livre sublime de Zarathoustra
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ISBN: 9782226220479 222622047X Year: 2019 Volume: 253 Publisher: Paris Albin Michel

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Zarathoustra (ou Zoroastre) est le grand oublié de l'histoire des religions. Inventeur du monothéisme il y a 3700 ans, il a donné naissance à la religion des empires perses jusqu'à l'avènement de l'islam.Il a fallu attendre le XIXe siècle pour que soit enfin déchiffrée la langue des écrits originels de Zarathoustra, les Gathas, langue oubliée depuis des millénaires par les zoroastriens eux-mêmes. Le message de ces hymnes d'une grande poésie se révèle étonnamment moderne. Apôtre de la Justesse et de la Pensée Juste, les deux premiers attributs de ce Dieu unique qu'il appelle Ahura Mazda, Zarathoustra veut mener hommes et femmes vers une vie heureuse et dénonce la corruption des élites politiques et religieuses, les faux dieux et les sacrifices sanglants.Les plus grands philosophes grecs se réclamaient de lui, tandis que le judaïsme et le christianisme ont puisé à sa source les notions fondamentales de paradis, d'enfer, de royaume de Dieu.Khosro Khazai Pardis, l'un des grands spécialistes de ces textes et zoroastrien lui-même, nous livre ici une superbe traduction de ces hymnes qui ont fondé le monothéisme. Il nous explique également leur histoire, la philosophie qui s'en dégage et leur influence à travers les siècles.


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The wiley-Blackwell companion to zoroastrianism
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ISBN: 9781444331356 1444331353 Year: 2015 Volume: *10 Publisher: Chichester ; New York ; Brisbane ; Toronto ; Singapore John Wiley & Sons

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The teachings of the Magi : a compendium of zoroastrian beliefs.
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ISBN: 0859690296 0859690415 9780859690294 Year: 1975 Publisher: London Sheldon

Faszination Zarathushtra : Zoroaster und die Europäische Religionsgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit
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ISBN: 3110149591 3110809478 9783110149593 Year: 2013 Volume: 42 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter,

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