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Zoroastrianism - An Introduction (Paperback)
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Zoroastrianism - An Introduction (Paperback)
Series: I.B.Tauris Introductions to Religion
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Zoroastrianism is one of the world's great ancient religions. In
present-day Iran, significant communities of Zoroastrians (who take
their name from the founder of the faith, the remarkable religious
reformer Zoroaster) still practise the rituals and teach the moral
precepts that once undergirded the officially state-sanctioned
faith of the mighty Sasanian empire. Beyond Iran, the Zoroastrian
disapora is significant especially in India, where the
Gujarati-speaking community of emigrants from post-Sasanian Iran
call themselves 'Parsis'. But there are also significant
Zoroastrian communities to be found elsewhere, such as in the USA,
Britain and Canada, where western cultural contexts have shaped the
religion in intriguing ways and directions. This new, thorough and
wide-ranging introduction will appeal to anyone interested in
discovering more about the faith that bequeathed the contrasting
words 'Magi' and 'magic', and whose adherents still live according
to the code of 'Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds.' The central
Zoroastrian concept that human beings are continually faced with a
choice between the path of 'good' and 'evil', represented by the
contrasting figures of Ahura Mazda and Ahriman, inspired thinkers
as diverse as Voltaire, Mozart and Nietzsche. Jenny Rose shows why
Zoroastrianism remains one of the world's most inspiring and
perennially fascinating systems of ethics and belief.
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