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Leiden: Brill, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Octavo. x, 737, (1)pp. Plus plates. Pictorial lavender buckram, spine a touch sunned to gray, lettered in white & black. Illustrated with approx. 20 text drawings and 16 plates (most plates in color). A near fine, but ex-library copy with a minimal rubber library stamp on title page and at bottom edge of text block. 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…
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Zoroastrian Rituals in Context Hardcover - 2004
by Michael Stausberg (Editor)
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- Title Zoroastrian Rituals in Context
- Author Michael Stausberg (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 766
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Brill
- Date January 2004
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated
- ISBN 9789004131316 / 9004131310
- Weight 3.25 lbs (1.47 kg)
- Dimensions 9.58 x 6.56 x 2.04 in (24.33 x 16.66 x 5.18 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003055913
- Dewey Decimal Code 295.38
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