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Pious Citizens: Reforming Zoroastrianism in India and Iran (Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East)
Monica M. Ringer
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Hardcover. Pious Citizens explores Zoroastrian religious reform in India and Iran as a window onto the transformation of the nature and function of religion that occurred in the nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries. Series: Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: HRKZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 456.
In Pious Citizens, Ringer tells the story of a major intellectual revolution in nineteenth- and early twentieth–century India and Iran, one that radically transformed the role of religion in society. At this time, key theological debates revolved around Zoroastrianism’s capacity to generate ""progress"" and ""civilization."" Armed with both the destructive and creative capacities of historicism, reformers reevaluated their own religious tradition, molding Zoroastrian belief and practice according to contemporary ideas of rational religion and its potential to create pious citizens. Ringer demonstrates how rational and enlightened religion, characterized by social responsibility and the interiorization of piety, was understood as essential ... Read more
In Pious Citizens, Ringer tells the story of a major intellectual revolution in nineteenth- and early twentieth–century India and Iran, one that radically transformed the role of religion in society. At this time, key theological debates revolved around Zoroastrianism’s capacity to generate ""progress"" and ""civilization."" Armed with both the destructive and creative capacities of historicism, reformers reevaluated their own religious tradition, molding Zoroastrian belief and practice according to contemporary ideas of rational religion and its potential to create pious citizens. Ringer demonstrates how rational and enlightened religion, characterized by social responsibility and the interiorization of piety, was understood as essential ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Series
Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815632641
SKU
V9780815632641
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