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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Main Author: Michael Stausberg (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2004.

Series: Numen Book Series 102.
Numen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837.

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Call Number: BL1590.L58 Z67 2004

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.