EAN: 9781350128712

ZOROASTRIANISM - JENNY ROSE KARTONIERT (TB)

Zoroastrianism is one of the world's great ancient religions. In present-day Iran  significant
communities of Zoroastrians (who take their name from the founder of the faith  the remarkable
religious reformer Zoroaster) still practise the rituals and teach the moral precepts that once
undergirded the officially state-sanctioned faith of the mighty Sasanian empire. Beyond Iran 
the Zoroastrian disapora is significant especially in India  where the Gujarati-speaking
community of emigrants from post-Sasanian Iran call themselves 'Parsis'. But there are also
significant Zoroastrian communities to be found elsewhere  such as in the USA  Britain and
Canada  where western cultural contexts have shaped the religion in intriguing ways and
directions. This new  thorough and wide-ranging introduction will appeal to anyone interested
in discovering more about the faith that bequeathed the contrasting words 'Magi' and 'magic' 
and whose adherents still live according to the code of 'Good Thoughts  Good Words  Good
Deeds.' The central Zoroastrian concept that human beings are continually faced with a choice
between the path of 'good' and 'evil'  represented by the contrasting figures of Ahura Mazda
and Ahriman  inspired thinkers as diverse as Voltaire  Mozart and Nietzsche. Jenny Rose shows
why Zoroastrianism remains one of the world's most inspiring and perennially fascinating
systems of ethics and belief.

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