European Zoroastrian Attitudes to Their Purity Laws

Name: European Zoroastrian Attitudes to Their Purity Laws
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ISBN: 9781599423852

ISBN-10: 1599423855

ISBN-13: 9781599423852

Edition: N/A

Authors: Gillian Towler Mehta

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The thesis has one main focus, the purity laws of a religious group in Europe, an original piece of research never done before in the UK. The thesis uses diasporic theories of identity; theories of women and the body; theories of women, their bodies and patriarchal religion and theories of women, purity and pollution in religion, to explain why European Zoroastrian women continue to support six of the purity laws of Zoroastrianism in the year 2003. Purity and pollution are at the heart of the Zoroastrian religion and the research demonstrated that Zoroastrians belief in and knowledge of the six purity laws was strong in 2003. Zoroastrians are a diasporic religious group whose modern origins…

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List price: $29.95
Publisher: Universal Publishers
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 356
Size: 6.69" wide x 9.61" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English