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Religion, culture, and politics in pre-Islamic Iran : collected essays
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Religion, culture, and politics in pre-Islamic Iran : collected essays / by Bruce Lincoln.
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9789004460287
9004460284
9789004460294
Publication
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
Physical Description
xii, 419 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Summary
"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 most directly: Avestan, Old Persian, Pahlavi, and Iranian materials in comparison with other data, including studies of myths, especially those with cosmogonic implications, ritual practices, cosmological constructions of space and time, points of intersection between religion, ethics, law, and politics, ideological aspects of scientific and medical theorizing, social organization and gender relations, and other diverse topics"-- Provided by publisher.
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Online version: Lincoln, Bruce. Religion, culture, and politics in pre-Islamic Iran Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 05, 2021
Series
Ancient Iran series, volume 14
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Human unity and diversity in Zoroastrian mythology
The one and the many in Iranian creation myths
The cosmo-logic of Persian demonology
Toward a more materialist ethics : vermin and poison in Zoroastrian thought
Before religion? The Zoroastrian concept of Daēnā and two myths about it
Apocalyptic temporality and politics in the ancient world
Religion, empire, and the spectre of orientalism : a recent controversy in Achaemenid studies
Persian archers and paradise gardens : projecting power in the Achaemenid empire
Physiological speculation and social patterning in a Pahlavi text
Embryological speculation and gender politics in a Pahlavi text
Pahlavi kirrēnīdan and traces of Iranian creation mythology
Cēšmag, the lie, and the logic of Zoroastrian demonology
Anomaly, science, and religion : treatment of the planets in medieval Zoroastrianism
Of dirt, diet, and religious others : a theme in Zoroastrian thought
The Indo-European myth of creation
Treatment of hair and fingernails among the Indo Europeans
The center of the world and the origins of life
Hegelian meditations on "Indo-European" myths
From purity to law : Avestan yaoždā and Latin iūs
From ritual practice to esoteric knowledge : the problem of the Magi.
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