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Pious citizens reforming Zoroastrianism in India and Iran
Author
Title
Pious citizens [electronic resource] : reforming Zoroastrianism in India and Iran / Monica M. Ringer.
ISBN
0815650604
9780815650607
0815632649
9780815632641
Edition
1st ed.
Published
Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2011. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 273 p. :) ill., map ;
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Description based on print version record.
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Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - UPCC 2010-2012 Current Complete Collection Bundle.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2011 Current Complete Collection.
Project MUSE - UPCC 2011 Philosophy and Religion Collection.
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 27, 2012
Series
Modern intellectual and political history of the Middle East
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-259) and index.
Contents
Introduction: modernity, religion, and the production of knowledge
Bombay and murmurs of reform: religion as "civilization" and "progress"
The Protestant challenge to Zoroastrianism
The Parsi response: rational religion and the rethinking of tradition
Western religious studies scholarship: historicism and evolutionism
Parsi religious reform in the second generation: the recovery of "true" religion
The Parsi rediscovery of ancient Iran
Iranian nationalism and the Zoroastrian past
Kay Khosrow Shahrokh: rational religion and citizenship in Iran
Conclusion: religion and the creation of pious citizens.
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