Zoroastrian Rituals in Context

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 Japa...

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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

Preface and Acknowledgments
Michael Stausberg: Contextualizing the Contexts. On the Study of Zoroastrian Rituals
MODELLING THEORY—THEORETICAL APPROACHES
Burkhard Gladigow: Sequenzierung von Riten und die Ordnung der Rituale
Jan A.M. Snoek: 'Initiations' in Theory and in Zoroastrianism
Jens Kreinath: Meta-Theoretical Parameters for the Analysis and Comparison of Two Recent Approaches to the Study of the Yasna
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Preface and Acknowledgments
Michael Stausberg: Contextualizing the Contexts. On the Study of Zoroastrian Rituals
MODELLING THEORY—THEORETICAL APPROACHES
Burkhard Gladigow: Sequenzierung von Riten und die Ordnung der Rituale
Jan A.M. Snoek: 'Initiations' in Theory and in Zoroastrianism
Jens Kreinath: Meta-Theoretical Parameters for the Analysis and Comparison of Two Recent Approaches to the Study of the Yasna
COMPARATIVE STUDIES
James W. Boyd and Ron G. Williams: The Art of Ritual in a Comparative Context
Dorothea Lüddeckens: Bruch und Kontinuität in Todesritualen. Beobachtungen zu westeuropäischen und zoroastrischen Bestattungen
Gernot Windfuhr: Zoroastrian and Taoist Ritual: Cosmology and Sacred Numerology
Antonio Panaino: Aspects of the 'Interiorization' of the Sacrifice in the Zoroastrian Tradition
RITUAL TEXTS—RITUALS IN TEXTS
Prods Oktor Skjærvø: Smashing Urine: On Yasna 48.10
Jean Kellens: Les précautions rituelles et la triade du comportement
Almut Hintze: On the Ritual Significance of the Yasna Haptaŋhāiti
Philip G. Kreyenbroek: Ritual and Rituals in the Nērangestān
Shaul Shaked: The Yasna Ritual in Pahlavi Literature
RITUAL PERFORMANCES AND PRACTICES
Albert de Jong: Sub specie maiestatis: Reflections on Sasanian Court Rituals
Anders Hultgård: Ritual Community Meals in Ancient Iranian Religion
Firoze M. Kotwal and Jamsheed K. Choksy: To Praise the Souls of the Deceased and the Immortal Spirits of the Righteous Ones: The Staomi or Stūm Ritual's History and Functions
Ramiyar P. Karanjia: The Bāj-dharnā (Drōn Yašt) and its Place in Zoroastrian Rituals
Mario Vitalone: Fires and the Establishment of ātaš bahrāms in the Zoroastrian Tradition
Sarah Stewart: The Ātaš nu gīt: A Reconstitutive Ritual of Recital
Carlo G. Cereti: Prejudice vs. Reality. Zoroastrians and their Rituals as Seen by two 19th Century Italian Travellers
Marzban Giara / Ramiyar P. Karanjia / Michael Stausberg: Manekji on the Religious/Ritual Practices of the Iranian Zoroastrians: An English Translation of a Passage from his Travel Report in Gujarati (1865)
THE INTERACTION OF RITUAL TRADITIONS
Werner Sundermann: Zarathustra der Priester und Prophet in der Lehre der Manichäer
Sabine Kalinock: Supernatural Intercession to Earthly Problems: Sofreh Rituals Among Shiite Muslims and Zoroastrians in Iran
Beate Schmermbeck: „O Herr, erhöre unser Monāǧāt": Zarathustrische Traditionslinien einer persischen Gebetsgattung zwischen Indien und Iran
Robert Langer: From Private Shrine to Pilgrim-Center: The Spectrum of Zoroastrian Shrines in Iran
RITUAL CHANGE—CHANGING RITUALS
Dietrich Huff: Archaeological Evidence of Zoroastrian Funerary Practices
Katayun Mazdapour: Kontinuität und Wandel in den Ritualen der iranischen Zarathustrier
Michael Stausberg: Monday-Nights at the Banaji, Fridays at the Aslaji: Ritual Efficacy and Transformation in Bombay City
Abstracts
List of Illustrations
Colour Plates
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