The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Zoroastrianism

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Michael Stausberg (University of Bergen, Norway) Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina (Stanford University, USA)

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Zoroastrianism

Michael Stausberg (University of Bergen, Norway), Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina (Stanford University, USA), Anna Tessmann

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Wiley-Blackwell
29 May 2015

Zoroastrianism

Series: Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion

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

With: Anna Tessmann
Edited by: Michael Stausberg (University of Bergen Norway), Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina (Stanford University, USA)
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 1.211kg
ISBN: 9781444331356
ISBN 10: 1444331353
Series: Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
Pages: 704
Publication Date: 29 May 2015
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.