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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Zoroastrianism
Michael Stausberg
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Description for The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Zoroastrianism
Hardback. Presents the comprehensive English-language survey of Zoroastrianism, one of the oldest living religions. This book 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. Editor(s): Stausberg, Michael; Vevaina, Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw; Tessmann, Anna. Series: Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Religion. Num Pages: 696 pages. BIC Classification: HRKZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 184 x 253 x 39. Weight in Grams: 1208.
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
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Condition
New
Series
Wiley-Blackwell Companions to Religion
Number of Pages
704
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781444331356
SKU
V9781444331356
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99-50
About Michael Stausberg
THE EDITORS MICHAEL STAUSBERG is a Professor of Religion at the University of Bergen and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. His books in English include Religion and Tourism: Crossroads, Destinations, and Encounters (2011) and Zarathustra and Zoroastrianism (2008), and he is the editor or co-editor of Defining Magic (2013), The Routledge Handbook of Research Methods in the Study of Religions (2011), Contemporary Theories of Religion (2009), and Theorizing Rituals (2 vols., 2006–2007). Dr. Stausberg has also published widely on Zarathustra and Zoroastrianism in German; he is co-editor of the international journal Religion. YUHAN SOHRAB-DINSHAW VEVAINA is a Lecturer in Religious Studies at Stanford University. After completing his PhD in 2007 at Harvard University, he served as Postdoctoral Fellow in the Undergraduate Core Curriculum and as the Lecturer on Old Iranian in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations. Dr. Vevaina has authored articles for peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes, and in 2010 he received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, USA. He is currently completing a book project on Zoroastrian hermeneutics in Late Antiquity.
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