Religion, culture, and politics in pre-Islamic Iran : : collected essays /

Religion, culture, and politics in pre-Islamic Iran : : collected essays / / Bruce Lincoln.

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"In Religion, Culture, and Politics in Pre-Islamic Iran, Bruce Lincoln offers a vast overview on different aspects of the Indo-Iranian, Zoroastrian and Pre-Islamic mythologies, religions and cultural issues. The book is organized in four sections according to the body of evidence they engage mo...

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Superior document:Ancient Iran
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Lincoln, Bruce,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherland ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Ancient Iran
Physical Description:1 online resource (433 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Figures
  • Tables
  • Part 1 Indo-Iranian, Avestan, and General Iranian
  • Chapter 1 Human Unity and Diversity in Zoroastrian Mythology
  • Chapter 2 The One and the Many in Iranian Creation Myths
  • Chapter 3 The Cosmo-Logic of Persian Demonology
  • Chapter 4 Toward a more Materialist Ethics: Vermin and Poison in Zoroastrian Thought
  • Chapter 5 Before Religion? The Zoroastrian Concept of Daēnā and Two Myths about It
  • Part 2 Old Persian and Achaemenid
  • Chapter 6 Apocalyptic Temporality and Politics in the Ancient World
  • Chapter 7 Religion, Empire, and the Spectre of Orientalism: A Recent Controversy in Achaemenid Studies
  • Chapter 8 Persian Archers and Paradise Gardens: Projecting Power in the Achaemenid Empire
  • Part 3 Pahlavi
  • Chapter 9 Physiological Speculation and Social Patterning in a Pahlavi Text
  • Chapter 10 Embryological Speculation and Gender Politics in a Pahlavi Text
  • Chapter 11 Pahlavi kirrēnīdan and Traces of Iranian Creation Mythology
  • Chapter 12 Cēšmag, the Lie, and the Logic of Zoroastrian Demonology
  • Chapter 13 Anomaly, Science, and Religion: Treatment of the Planets in Medieval Zoroastrianism
  • Chapter 14 Of Dirt, Diet, and Religious Others: A Theme in Zoroastrian Thought
  • Part 4 Iranian Materials in Comparative Perspective
  • Chapter 15 The Indo-European Myth of Creation
  • Chapter 16 Treatment of Hair and Fingernails among the Indo Europeans
  • Chapter 17 The Center of the World and the Origins of Life
  • Chapter 18 Hegelian Meditations on "Indo-European" Myths
  • Chapter 19 From Purity to Law: Avestan yaoždā and Latin iūs
  • Chapter 20 From Ritual Practice to Esoteric Knowledge: The Problem of the Magi
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Words
  • Index of Sources
  • Index of Subjects.

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