{"product_id":"religion-culture-and-politics-in-pre-islamic-iran-collected-essays-9789004460287","title":"Religion, Culture, and Politics in Pre-Islamic Iran: Collected Essays","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface  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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210820378967,"sku":"9789004460287","price":137.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/religion-culture-and-politics-in-pre-islamic-iran-collected-essays-9789004460287","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}