The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Zoroastrianism

Notes on Contributors ix    Acknowledgments xi     Aims and Scope xiii     A Note on Transcriptions xix     Abbreviations xxiii     Introduction: Scholarship on Zoroastrianism 1 Michael Stausberg and Yuhan Sohrab   Dinshaw Vevaina     Part I Zarathustra Revisited 19     1 Zarathustra   s Time and Homeland: Geographical Perspectives 21 Frantz Grenet     2 Zarathustra   s Time and Homeland: Linguistic Perspectives 31 Almut Hintze     3 Interpretations of Zarathustra and the Gat   ha  s 39 a The Gat   has   39 Helmut Humbach     b The Ga  tha  s, Said to Be of Zarathustra 44 Jean Kellens     c Dimensions of the Ga  tha  s as Poetry 51 Martin Schwartz     d The Ga  tha  s as Myth and Ritual 59 Prods Oktor Skjaervo     4 Zarathustra: Post-Gathic Trajectories 69 Michael Stausberg     Part II Periods, Regions, and Contexts 83     5 Religion and Politics in Pre   Islamic Iran 85 Albert de Jong     6 Zoroastrianism under Islamic Rule 103 Touraj Daryaee     7 Armenian and Georgian Zoroastrianism 119 Albert de Jong     8 Zoroastrianism in Central Asia 129 Frantz Grenet     9 Zoroastrianism in the Far East 147 Takeshi Aoki     10 The Parsis 157 John R. Hinnells     11 Zoroastrians in Modern Iran 173 Michael Stausberg     12 The Zoroastrian Diaspora 191 John R. Hinnells     Part III Structures, Discourses, and Dimensions 209     13 Theologies and Hermeneutics 211 Yuhan Sohrab   Dinshaw Vevaina     14 Cosmologies and Astrology 235 Antonio Panaino     15 Myths, Legends, Eschatologies 259 Carlo G. Cereti     16 Gender 273 Jenny Rose     17 Law in Pre   Modern Zoroastrianism 289 Maria Macuch     18 Law and Modern Zoroastrians 299 Mitra Sharafi     Part IV Practices and Sites 313     19 Ethics 315 Alberto Cantera     20 Prayer 333 Firoze M. Kotwal and Philip G. Kreyenbroek     21 Purity and Pollution / The Body 345 Alan V. Williams     22 Rituals 363 Michael Stausberg and Ramiyar P. Karanjia     23 Festivals and the Calendar 379 Jenny Rose     24 Religious Sites and Physical Structures 393 Jamsheed K. Choksy     Part V Intersections 407     25 Early India and Iran 409 Prods Oktor Skjaervo     26 Judaism 423 Yaakov Elman and Shai Secunda     27 The Classical World 437 Martin L. West     28 From Mi  ra to Roman Mithras 451 Richard L. Gordon     29 Christianity 457 Marco Frenschkowski     30 Manichaeism in Iran 477 Manfred Hutter     31 Islam 491 Shaul Shaked     32 The Yezidi and Yarsan Traditions 499 Philip G. Kreyenbroek     33 The Baha           Faith 505 Moojan Momen     Part VI Primary Sources 517     34 Primary Sources: Avestan and Pahlavi 519 Miguel Angel Andres   Toledo     35 Primary Sources: New Persian 529 Daniel J. Sheffield     36 Primary Sources: Gujarati 543 Daniel J. Sheffield     Bibliography 555     Index of People, Places, and Topics 629     Index Locorum 655