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Holy wealth, accounting for this world and the next in religious belief and practice : Festschrift for John R. Hinnells /
"This volume, presented to John R. Hinnells on his 75th Birthday, focuses on the interface between material and spiritual wealth, a theme that runs across many religions and cultures and that incorporates a major strand of John R. Hinnells's particular fascination with the Zoroastrians of...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Wiesbaden :
Harrassowitz Verlag,
2017.
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| Colección: | Iranica ;
Bd. 24. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / A. Williams
- John Russell Hinnells: a profile / A. Hintze
- Publications of John R. Hinnells
- Notes on contributors
- Individual and community self-identity in the mysteries of Mithras / R. Beck
- The Zoroastrian creation myth: clues to its antiquity / J.K. Choksy
- On the earliest Buddhist schools / L.S. Cousins
- Mary Carpenter (1807-1877): a Victorian educationist in Bombay / N.K. Firby
- Surrealism and some strategies of avoidance of censorship in Iranian art / A. Foroutan
- Questioning the category of "spiritual capital" drawing upon field studies of 'spiritual entrepreneurs' and their role in the economic and social development of British South Asian Muslims / R. Geaves
- Why is the kaṭhina robe so called? / R.F. Gombrich
- Cosmic order, nature, and personal well-being in the Roman cult of Mithras / R.L. Gordon
- Feasts of paradise: banqueting and sacrifice in the Islamic tradition / M. Hermansen
- Scribes and their patrons: on the merit of copying manuscripts in the Zoroastrian tradition / A. Hintze
- The divine and exalted status of the consecrated fire in Zoroastrianism / F.M. Kotwal
- Parsi charity: a historical perspective on religion, community, and donor-patron relations among the Parsis of India / J.S. Palsetia
- 'What can the pearl of a king do?' the idea of holy wealth in Byzantium / K. Parry
- The Banaji and Mehta families: forging the Parsi community in Calcutta / D. Patel
- Passages in India: early 19th century Yankee and Parsi outings in and around Bombay / J. Rose
- Parsi life writing: memoirs and family histories of modern Zoroastrians / M. Sharafi
- Blindness in the Masṉavi of Jalāl al-din Rumi / A. Williams