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1929. This volume contains the Columbia University Indo-Iranian Series volume eleven. The present work is the first of three separate monographs, in which the author proposes to treatof the Zoroastrian doctrine of a future life in its three phases, namely, the period from death to the individual judgment at the Chinvat Bridge, life in Heaven, hell or the Intermediate Place, and the general judgment. Contents: Zarathushtra's message of immortality; Soul of the righteous during the first three nights after death; Soul of the wicked during the first three nights; Manifestation of the Daena or conscience, to the soul according to the: Gathas, Later Avesta; Pahlavi and Parsi; Individual judgment according to the: Gathas, Later Avesta, Pahlavi; Parsi. ... Read more

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Title: Keeping faith with culture: Protestant mission among Zoroastrians of Bombay in the nineteenth century.
Author: Farshid Namdaran
Publication: International Bulletin of Missionary Research (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2003
Publisher: Overseas Ministries Study Center
Volume: 27Issue: 2Page: 71(7)

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THIS 10 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East: Ancient Persia, by Charles F. Horne. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766100103. ... Read more

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THIS 54 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Theosophy: Religion and Occult Science, by Henry S. Olcott. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1564593908. ... Read more

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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 studied in these pages range from antiquity to modernity, all the way from Japan, China, India, Iran, Europe to California. The essays touch on questions of theory, ritual texts, change and performances, gender and professional religion (priesthood/lay-people). The rituals studied are placed in a broad scope of social and local settings ranging from the royal court to the needy, from the rural village to the urban metropolis, from the domestic to the public. ... Read more

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A valuable reference source for Zarathushtrian rituals.
Zarathushtrians the world over are once more provided with a massive volume, this time edited by Dr. Michael Stausberg, his other two voluminous publications being, "Faszination Zarathushtra" (Walter de Gruyter, 1998) and "Die Religion Zarathushtras" (W. Kohlhammer, 2002). This book is the outcome of a proceedings of the international symposium "Zoroastrian Rituals in Context" held at the Internationales Wissenschaftsforum Heidelberg, from April 10-13, 2002.The book is a collection of papers by a majority of the greatest scholars in the field of Zarathushtrian studies, and in particular Zarathushtrian rituals and liturgical ceremonies.From setting the definitions of rituals and initiations in religious, geographical, historical and social contexts, nearly every minor and major Zarathushtrian ritual and liturgical ceremony is discussed and debated at some length.Thus this book serves to provide a valuable reference source for Zarathushtrian rituals, both for the novice and advanced students of Zarathushtrianism and I recommend this book most heartily to every Parsi and Zarathushtrian for a careful study of these papers.As usual the publishing house of Brill has to be thanked profusely for publishing for us in excellent style and format a valuable book on Zarathushtrianism in one of it's excellent monographic series. ... Read more