| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
|
| Title Information: |
reforming Zoroastrianism inIndia and Iran |
| Author: |
RingerMonica M., 1965- |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
| Place of Publication: |
Syracuse, N.Y. |
| Published: |
Syracuse University Press; |
| Year of Publication: |
2011 |
| Edition: |
1st ed. |
| Description: |
1 online resource (xv, 273 p.)ill., map. : |
| Series: |
Modern intellectual and political history of the Middle East |
| Subject: |
Zoroastrianism - History - Iran - |
| Subject: |
Zoroastrianism - History - India - |
| Subject: |
Iran - Religion - |
| Subject: |
India - Religion - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780815650607/ |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-259) and index |
| ISBN: |
9780815650607electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0815650604electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780815632641hbk. |
| ISBN: |
0815632649hbk. |
| Content Note: |
Introduction: modernity, religion, and the production of knowledge -- Bombay and murmurs of reform: religion as "civilization" and "progress" -- The Protestant challenge to Zoroastrianism -- The Parsi response:rational religion and the rethinking of tradition -- Western religiousstudies scholarship: historicism and evolutionism -- Parsi religious reform in the second generation: the recovery of "true" religion -- The Parsi rediscovery of ancient Iran -- Iranian nationalism and the Zoroastrian past -- Kay Khosrow Shahrokh: rational religion and citizenship in Iran -- Conclusion: religionand the creation of pious citizens |