Zoroastrian Rituals in Context.
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...
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| Superior document: | Numen book series. Studies in the history of religions ; Volume 102 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, , Boston: : Brill, , 2004. |
| Year of Publication: | 2004 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Numen Book Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 733 pages) :; illustrations. |
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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.