Author: Sir Jivanji Jamshedji Modi
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Category : Zoroastrianism
Languages : en
Pages : 94

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Author: Jesse S. Palsetia
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004121140
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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"The Parsis of India" examines a much-neglected area of Asian Studies. In tracing keypoints in the development of the Parsi community, it depicts the Parsis' history, and accounts for their ability to preserve, maintain and construct a distinct identity. For a great part the story is told in the colonial setting of Bombay city. Ample attention is given to the Parsis' evolution from an insular minority group to a modern community of pluralistic outlook. Filling the obvious lacunae in the literature on British "colonialism," Indian society and history, and, last but not least, "Zoroastrianism," this book broadens our knowledge of the interaction of colonialism and colonial groups, and elucidates the significant role of the Parsis in the commercial, educational, and civic milieu of Bombay colonial society.

Author: Jesse Palsetia
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004491279
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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The Parsis of India examines a much-neglected area of Asian Studies. In tracing keypoints in the development of the Parsi community, it depicts the Parsis’ history, and accounts for their ability to preserve, maintain and construct a distinct identity. For a great part the story is told in the colonial setting of Bombay city. Ample attention is given to the Parsis’ evolution from an insular minority group to a modern community of pluralistic outlook. Filling the obvious lacunae in the literature on British colonialism, Indian society and history, and, last but not least, Zoroastrianism, this book broadens our knowledge of the interaction of colonialism and colonial groups, and elucidates the significant role of the Parsis in the commercial, educational, and civic milieu of Bombay colonial society.

Author: Iranian Association
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 568

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Author: Monica M. Ringer
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 0815650604
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 295

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In Pious Citizens, Ringer tells the story of a major intellectual revolution in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century India and Iran, one that radically transformed the role of religion in society. At this time, key theological debates revolved around Zoroastrianism’s capacity to generate “progress” and “civilization.” Armed with both the destructive and creative capacities of historicism, reformers reevaluated their own religious tradition, molding Zoroastrian belief and practice according to contemporary ideas of rational religion and its potential to create pious citizens. Ringer demonstrates how rational and enlightened religion, characterized by social responsibility and the interiorization of piety, was understood as essential for the development of modern individuals, citizens, new public space, national identity, and secularism. She argues persuasively that reformers believed not only that social reform must be accompanied by religious reform but that it was in fact a product of religious reform. Pious Citizens offers new insights into the theological premises behind the promotion of secularism, the privatization of religion, and the development of new national identities. Ringer’s work also explores growing connections between the Iranian and Indian Zoroastrian communities and the revival of the ancient Persian past.

Author: Shapurji Maneckji Sanjana
Publisher:
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Category : Parsees
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Author: Śeherīārajī Dādābhāī Bharūcā
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Category : Zoroastrianism
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Author: Sir Jivanji Jamshedji Modi
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Category : Iranian philology
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Author: Eckehard Kulke
Publisher:
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Category : Parsees
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Author: Christine E. Dobbin
Publisher: London : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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