A Zoroastrian Tapestry

Author : Pheroza Godrej
Publisher : Mapin Publishing Pvt
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Zoroastrian Tapestry written by Pheroza Godrej and published by Mapin Publishing Pvt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With special reference of Zoroastrians/Parsees development in Iran and India, particularly in Mumbai.

Author : Sarah Stewart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857728865
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Zoroastrian Flame written by Sarah Stewart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many centuries, from the birth of the religion late in the second millennium BC to its influence on the Achaemenids and later adoption in the third century AD as the state religion of the Sasanian Empire, it enjoyed imperial patronage and profoundly shaped the culture of antiquity. The Magi of the New Testament most probably were Zoroastrian priests from the Iranian world, while the enigmatic figure of Zarathushtra (or Zoroaster) himself has exerted continual fascination in the West, influencing creative artists as diverse as Voltaire, Nietzsche, Mozart and Yeats. This authoritative volume brings together internationally recognised scholars to explore Zoroastrianism in all its rich complexity. Examining key themes such as history and modernity, tradition and scripture, art and architecture and minority status and religious identity, it places the modern Zoroastrians of Iran, and the Parsis of India, in their proper contexts. The book extends and complements the coverage of its companion volume, The Everlasting Flame.

Author : Michael Stausberg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118785509
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Zoroastrianism written by Michael Stausberg and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-03-23 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first ever comprehensive English-language survey of Zoroastrianism, one of the oldest living religions Evenly divided into five thematic sections beginning with an introduction to Zoroaster/Zarathustra and concluding with the intersections of Zoroastrianism and other religions Reflects the global nature of Zoroastrian studies with contributions from 34 international authorities from 10 countries Presents Zoroastrianism as a cluster of dynamic historical and contextualized phenomena, reflecting the current trend to move away from textual essentialism in the study of religion

Author : Christopher M Moreman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317528875
Total Pages : 693 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying written by Christopher M Moreman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 693 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few issues apply universally to people as poignantly as death and dying. All religions address concerns with death from the handling of human remains, to defining death, to suggesting what happens after life. The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying provides readers with an overview of the study of death and dying. Questions of death, mortality, and more recently of end-of-life care, have long been important ones and scholars from a range of fields have approached the topic in a number of ways. Comprising over fifty-two chapters from a team of international contributors, the companion covers: funerary and mourning practices; concepts of the afterlife; psychical issues associated with death and dying; clinical and ethical issues; philosophical issues; death and dying as represented in popular culture. This comprehensive collection of essays will bring together perspectives from fields as diverse as history, philosophy, literature, psychology, archaeology and religious studies, while including various religious traditions, including established religions like Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism as well as new or less widely known traditions such as the Spiritualist Movement, the Church of Latter Day Saints, and Raëlianism. The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies, philosophy and literature.

Author : A. C. S. Peacock
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474417132
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islamisation written by A. C. S. Peacock and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-08 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spread of Islam and the process of Islamisation (meaning both conversion to Islam and the adoption of Muslim culture) is explored in the twenty-four chapters of this volume. Taking a comparative perspective, both the historical trajectory of Islamisation and the methodological problems in its study are addressed, with coverage moving from Africa to China and from the seventh century to the start of the colonial period in 1800. Key questions are addressed. What is meant by Islamisation? How far was the spread of Islam as a religion bound up with the spread of Muslim culture? To what extent are Islamisation and conversion parallel processes? How is Islamisation connected to Arabisation? What role do vernacular Muslim languages play in the promotion of Muslim culture? The broad, comparative perspective allows readers to develop a thorough understanding of the process of Islamisation over eleven centuries of its history.

Author : Anne Sofie Roald
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004216847
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Minorities in the Middle East written by Anne Sofie Roald and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the situation of both Muslim and non-Muslim religious minorities in the Middle East, this volume offers an analysis of various strategies of resilience and accommodation from a historical as well a contemporary perspective.

Author : Anil Relia
Publisher : Archer Art Gallery
ISBN 13 : 8193171829
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Indian Portrait - 9 written by Anil Relia and published by Archer Art Gallery. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ninth exhibition in the Indian Portrait series focuses on the introduction of Parsi portraiture in India and an insight on their art, culture and education etc. Paintings, photographs, CDVs, cabinet card albums, engravings, lithographs, prints & collectibles etc. are the different mediums that helped to preserve history. It contains over 170 portraits and was exhibited in December 2018.

Author : Vimalin Rujivacharakul
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888208055
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Architecturalized Asia written by Vimalin Rujivacharakul and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did terms like “Asia,” “Eurasia,” “Indochina,” “Pacific Rim” or “Australasia” originate and evolve, and what are their connections to the built environment? In addressing this question,Architecturalized Asia bridges the fields of history and architecture by taking “Asia” as a discursive structure and cultural construct, whose spatial and ideological formation can be examined through the lenses of cartography, built environments, and visual narratives. The first section, on the study of architecture in Asia from the medieval through early modern periods, examines icons and symbols in maps as well as textual descriptions produced in Europe and Asia. The second section explores the establishment of the field of Asian architecture as well as the political and cultural imagining of “Asia” during the long nineteenth century, when “Asia” and its regions were redefined in the making of modern world maps mainly produced in Europe. The third section examines tangible structures produced in the twentieth century as legible documents of these notional constructions of Asia. In exploring the ways in which “Asia” has been drawn and framed both within and without the continent, this volume offers cutting-edge scholarship on architectural history, world history and the history of empires. Written by architectural historians and historians specializing in Asia and European empires, this unique volume addresses the connection between Asia and the world through the lenses of built environments and spatial conceptualizations. Architecturalized Asiawill appeal to readers who are interested in Asian architecture, world architecture, Asian history, history of empires, and world history.

Author : ARAM SOCIETY
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 132671743X
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book ARAM 26 Black & White Paperback written by ARAM SOCIETY and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Hinnells
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134067526
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parsis in India and the Diaspora written by John Hinnells and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-10-22 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Parsis are India's smallest minority community, yet they have exercised a huge influence on the country. This book, written by notable experts in the field, explores various key aspects of the Parsis, spanning the time from their arrival in India to the twenty-first century.