KELLENS Jean, REDARD Céline.
Introduction to the Avesta. The sacred liturgical recitative of the Zoroastrians.
The Beautiful Letters
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| N° d'inventaire | 25483 |
| Format | 13.6 x 21 |
| Détails | 208 p., index, 22 B&W illustrations, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782251452128 |
Almost all contemporary world religions refer to a book that their followers consider sacred. The Avesta, which served Zoroastrian communities in Iran, India, and their diaspora, seems to belong to this group, testifying to the origins of the pre-Islamic religion of Iranian tribes.
There is, however, something that requires more insistent attention. Almost always approached as the theoretical expression of a religious doctrine or the mirror of a bygone history and geography, the Avesta is also a literary machine whose cogs must be dismantled. That is, the mode of transmission, the structural particularities, and the liturgical intentions that presided over the textual assemblages must be precisely analyzed.
This is the ambition of this book, which retraces the evolution of research from its origins to the advances of the 21st century, which have revolutionized the theses commonly accepted until then.
There is, however, something that requires more insistent attention. Almost always approached as the theoretical expression of a religious doctrine or the mirror of a bygone history and geography, the Avesta is also a literary machine whose cogs must be dismantled. That is, the mode of transmission, the structural particularities, and the liturgical intentions that presided over the textual assemblages must be precisely analyzed.
This is the ambition of this book, which retraces the evolution of research from its origins to the advances of the 21st century, which have revolutionized the theses commonly accepted until then.
There is, however, something that requires more insistent attention. Almost always approached as the theoretical expression of a religious doctrine or the mirror of a bygone history and geography, the Avesta is also a literary machine whose cogs must be dismantled. That is, the mode of transmission, the structural particularities, and the liturgical intentions that presided over the textual assemblages must be precisely analyzed.
This is the ambition of this book, which retraces the evolution of research from its origins to the advances of the 21st century, which have revolutionized the theses commonly accepted until then.