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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.

Avesta. --- 295.4 --- 295.4 Zoroastrisme. Mazdaisme. Zend-Avesta. Zarathoestra --- Zoroastrisme. Mazdaisme. Zend-Avesta. Zarathoestra

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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.

Zoroastrianism --- Zoroastrisme --- Rituals --- Rituel --- 295.4 --- -Mazdaism --- Mazdeism --- Religions --- Mithraism --- Zoroastrisme. Mazdaisme. Zend-Avesta. Zarathoestra --- -Zoroastrisme. Mazdaisme. Zend-Avesta. Zarathoestra --- 295.4 Zoroastrisme. Mazdaisme. Zend-Avesta. Zarathoestra --- -295.4 Zoroastrisme. Mazdaisme. Zend-Avesta. Zarathoestra --- Mazdaism --- Rituals. --- Zoroastrianism - Rituals

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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.

Zoroastrianism --- Zoroastrianism. --- History. --- -295.4 --- 295.4 Zoroastrisme. Mazdaisme. Zend-Avesta. Zarathoestra --- Zoroastrisme. Mazdaisme. Zend-Avesta. Zarathoestra --- Mazdaism --- Mazdeism --- Religions --- Mithraism --- Zoroastrisme --- 295.4 --- History

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Zoroastrianism. --- Zoroastrisme --- 295.4 --- Mazdaism --- Mazdeism --- Religions --- Mithraism --- Zoroastrisme. Mazdaisme. Zend-Avesta. Zarathoestra --- 295.4 Zoroastrisme. Mazdaisme. Zend-Avesta. Zarathoestra --- Zoroastrianism

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295.4 --- Zoroastrisme. Mazdaisme. Zend-Avesta. Zarathoestra --- 295.4 Zoroastrisme. Mazdaisme. Zend-Avesta. Zarathoestra --- Zoroastrianism --- Europe --- Religion. --- Mazdaism --- Mazdeism --- Religions --- Mithraism