Religion, Culture, and Politics in Pre-Islamic Iran : Collected Essays (Ancient Iran Series)

Lincoln, Bruce

Brill（2021/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 420 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004460287
• DDC分類 955

Full Description

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.

Contents

Preface

List of Figures

List of Tables

part 1: Indo-Iranian, Avestan, and General Iranian

1 Human Unity and Diversity in Zoroastrian Mythology

2 The One and the Many in Iranian Creation Myths

3 The Cosmo-Logic of Persian Demonology

4 Toward a more Materialist Ethics: Vermin and Poison in Zoroastrian Thought

5 Before Religion? The Zoroastrian Concept of Daēnā and Two Myths about It

part 2: Old Persian and Achaemenid

6 Apocalyptic Temporality and Politics in the Ancient World

7 Religion, Empire, and the Spectre of Orientalism: A Recent Controversy in Achaemenid Studies

8 Persian Archers and Paradise Gardens: Projecting Power in the Achaemenid Empire

part 3: Pahlavi

9 Physiological Speculation and Social Patterning in a Pahlavi Text

10 Embryological Speculation and Gender Politics in a Pahlavi Text

11 Pahlavi kirrēnīdan and Traces of Iranian Creation Mythology

12 Cēšmag, the Lie, and the Logic of Zoroastrian Demonology

13 Anomaly, Science, and Religion: Treatment of the Planets in Medieval Zoroastrianism

14 Of Dirt, Diet, and Religious Others: A Theme in Zoroastrian Thought

part 4: Iranian Materials in Comparative Perspective

15 The Indo-European Myth of Creation

16 Treatment of Hair and Fingernails among the Indo Europeans

17 The Center of the World and the Origins of Life

18 Hegelian Meditations on "Indo-European" Myths

19 From Purity to Law: Avestan yaoždā and Latin iūs

20 From Ritual Practice to Esoteric Knowledge: The Problem of the Magi

Bibliography

Index of Words

Index of Sources

Index of Subjects