Zoroastrian Rituals in Context.

• Superior document: Numen book series. Studies in the history of religions ; Volume 102
• Author: Michael Stausberg (Editor)
• TeilnehmendeR: Stausberg, Michael.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, , Boston: : Brill, , 2004.
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: Numen Book Series 102.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 733 pages) :; illustrations.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Contextualizing the Contexts. On the Study of Zoroastrian Rituals /; Sequenzierung von Riten und die Ordnung der Rituale /; ‘Initiations’ in Theory and in Zoroastrianism /; Meta-Theoretical Parameters for the Analysis and Comparison of Two Recent Approaches to the Study of the Yasna /; The Art of Ritual in a Comparative Context /; Bruch und Kontinuität in Todesritualen. Beobachtungen zu westeuropäischen und zoroastrischen Bestattungen /; Zoroastrian and Taoist Ritual: Cosmology and Sacred Numerology /; Aspects of the ‘Interiorization’ of the Sacrifice in the Zoroastrian Tradition /; Smashing Urine: On Yasna 48.10 /; Les précautions rituelles et la triade du comportement /; On the Ritual Significance of the Yasna Haptaŋhāiti /; Ritual and Rituals in the Nērangestān /; The Yasna Ritual in Pahlavi Literature /; Sub specie maiestatis: Reflections on Sasanian Court Rituals /; Ritual Community Meals in Ancient Iranian Religion /; To Praise the Souls of the Deceased and the Immortal Spirits of the Righteous Ones: The Staomi or Stūm Ritual’s History and Functions /; The Bāj-dharnā (Drōn Yašt) and its Place in Zoroastrian Rituals /; Fires and the Establishment of ātaš bahrāms in the Zoroastrian Tradition /; The Ātaš nu gīt: A Reconstitutive Ritual of Recital /; Prejudice vs. Reality. Zoroastrians and their Rituals as Seen by two 19th Century Italian Travellers /; Manekji on the Religious/Ritual Practices of the Iranian Zoroastrians: An English Translation of a Passage from his Travel Report in Gujarati (1865) /; Zarathustra der Priester und Prophet in der Lehre der Manichäer /; Supernatural Intercession to Earthly Problems: Sofreh Rituals Among Shiite Muslims and Zoroastrians in Iran /; „O Herr, erhöre unser Monāǧāt“: Zarathustrische Traditionslinien einer persischen Gebetsgattung zwischen Indien und Iran /; From Private Shrine to Pilgrim-Center: The Spectrum of Zoroastrian Shrines in Iran /; Archaeological Evidence of Zoroastrian Funerary Practices /; Kontinuität und Wandel in den Ritualen der iranischen Zarathustrier /; Monday-Nights at the Banaji, Fridays at the Aslaji: Ritual Efficacy and Transformation in Bombay City /; Abstracts /; List of Illustrations /; Colour Plates /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 9047412508
• Hierarchical level: Monograph

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.