The Teachings of the Magi

A Compendium of Zoroastrian Beliefs
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-14862-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 158 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 211 g

Reihe: Ethical and Religious Classics of East and West

Originally published in 1956, this book provides a clear, scholarly, introduction to the main tenets of Zoroastrian dualism presented largely in the words of the Zoroastrian texts themselves. The book demonstrates the essential reasonableness of Zoroastrian dualism, which is the dualism of a good and an evil spirit, and to show what the means in everyday life and how it is philosophically justified. There are chapters on cosmology, the relation of man to God, the nature of religion, ethics, sacraments and sacrifice, the soul’s fate at death and eschatology.

Zielgruppe

General, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zaehner, R. C.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Östliche Religionen Zarathustrismus, Zoroastrismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. A Catechism 2. The Two Primeval Spirits and Creation 3. The Devil’s Onslaught 4. The Necessity of Dualism 5. Man’s First Parents 6. The Good Religion 7. The Good Ethics 8. Sacraments and Sacrifice 9. The Individual Judgement at Death 10. The Resurrection of the Body and Life Everlasting.

Über Autor(innen)

R. C. Zaehner