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Zoroastrianism - An Introduction (Hardcover, New)
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Zoroastrianism - An Introduction (Hardcover, New)
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 Zoraoster) still practice 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
Gujurati-speaking community of exiles 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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