Religion, Culture, and Politics in Pre-Islamic Iran

Religion, Culture, and Politics in Pre-Islamic Iran
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Total Pages : 433
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ISBN-10 : 9789004460294
ISBN-13 : 9004460292
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Download or read book Religion, Culture, and Politics in Pre-Islamic Iran written by Bruce Lincoln and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Religion, Culture, and Politics in Pre-Islamic Iran, Bruce Lincoln offers a vast overview on different aspects of the Indo-Iranian, Zoroastrian and Pre-Islamic mythologies, religions and cultural issues. The book is organized in four sections according to the body of evidence they engage most directly: Avestan, Old Persian, Pahlavi, and Iranian materials in comparison with other data, including studies of myths, especially those with cosmogonic implications, ritual practices, cosmological constructions of space and time, points of intersection between religion, ethics, law, and politics, ideological aspects of scientific and medical theorizing, social organization and gender relations, and other diverse topics.


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