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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Michael Stausberg -- Contextualizing the Contexts. On the Study of Zoroastrian Rituals / Michael Stausberg -- Sequenzierung von Riten und die Ordnung der Rituale / Burkhard Gladigow -- ‘Initiations’ in Theory and in Zoroastrianism / Jan A.M. Snoek -- Meta-Theoretical Parameters for the Analysis and Comparison of Two Recent Approaches to the Study of the Yasna / Jens Kreinath -- The Art of Ritual in a Comparative Context / James W. Boyd and Ron G. Williams -- Bruch und Kontinuität in Todesritualen. Beobachtungen zu westeuropäischen und zoroastrischen Bestattungen / Dorothea Lüddeckens -- Zoroastrian and Taoist Ritual: Cosmology and Sacred Numerology / Gernot Windfuhr -- Aspects of the ‘Interiorization’ of the Sacrifice in the Zoroastrian Tradition / Antonio Panaino -- Smashing Urine: On Yasna 48.10 / Prods Oktor Skjærvø -- Les précautions rituelles et la triade du comportement / Jean Kellens -- On the Ritual Significance of the Yasna Haptaŋhāiti / Almut Hintze -- Ritual and Rituals in the Nērangestān / Philip G. Kreyenbroek -- The Yasna Ritual in Pahlavi Literature / Shaul Shaked -- Sub specie maiestatis: Reflections on Sasanian Court Rituals / Albert de Jong -- Ritual Community Meals in Ancient Iranian Religion / Anders Hultgård -- To Praise the Souls of the Deceased and the Immortal Spirits of the Righteous Ones: The Staomi or Stūm Ritual’s History and Functions / Firoze M. Kotwal and Jamsheed K. Choksy -- The Bāj-dharnā (Drōn Yašt) and its Place in Zoroastrian Rituals / Ramiyar P. Karanjia -- Fires and the Establishment of ātaš bahrāms in the Zoroastrian Tradition / Mario Vitalone -- The Ātaš nu gīt: A Reconstitutive Ritual of Recital / Sarah Stewart -- Prejudice vs. Reality. Zoroastrians and their Rituals as Seen by two 19th Century Italian Travellers / Carlo G. Cereti -- Manekji on the Religious/Ritual Practices of the Iranian Zoroastrians: An English Translation of a Passage from his Travel Report in Gujarati (1865) / Marzban Giara , Ramiyar P. Karanjia and Michael Stausberg -- Zarathustra der Priester und Prophet in der Lehre der Manichäer / Werner Sundermann -- Supernatural Intercession to Earthly Problems: Sofreh Rituals Among Shiite Muslims and Zoroastrians in Iran / Sabine Kalinock -- „O Herr, erhöre unser Monāǧāt“: Zarathustrische Traditionslinien einer persischen Gebetsgattung zwischen Indien und Iran / Beate Schmermbeck -- From Private Shrine to Pilgrim-Center: The Spectrum of Zoroastrian Shrines in Iran / Robert Langer -- Archaeological Evidence of Zoroastrian Funerary Practices / Dietrich Huff -- Kontinuität und Wandel in den Ritualen der iranischen Zarathustrier / Katayun Mazdapour -- Monday-Nights at the Banaji, Fridays at the Aslaji: Ritual Efficacy and Transformation in Bombay City / Michael Stausberg -- Abstracts / Michael Stausberg -- List of Illustrations / Michael Stausberg -- Colour Plates / Michael Stausberg.