Pious citizens reforming Zoroastrianism in India and Iran - Ringer, Monica M., 1965- (Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2011)
Introduction: modernity, religion, and the production of knowledge -- Bombay and murmurs of reform: religion as "civilization" and "progress" -- The Protestant challenge to Zoroastrianism -- The Parsi response: rational religion and the rethinking of tradition -- Western religious studies scholarship: historicism and evolutionism -- Parsi religious reform in the second generation: the recovery of "true" religion -- The Parsi rediscovery of ancient Iran -- Iranian nationalism and the Zoroastrian past -- Kay Khosrow Shahrokh: rational religion and citizenship in Iran -- Conclusion: religion and the creation of pious citizens.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Keywords: Zoroastrianism -- India -- History; India -- Religion; Zoroastrianism -- Iran -- History; Iran -- Religion; RELIGION -- Zoroastrianism; Religion; Zoroastrianism; India; Iran; RELIGION / General; Electronic books; History