The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Zoroastrianism

This is the first ever comprehensive English-language survey of Zoroastrianism, one of the oldest living religions

• Evenly divided into five thematic sections beginning with an introduction to Zoroaster/Zarathustra and concluding with the intersections of Zoroastrianism and other religions
• Reflects the global nature of Zoroastrian studies with contributions from 34 international authorities from 10 countries
• Presents Zoroastrianism as a cluster of dynamic historical and contextualized phenomena, reflecting the current trend to move away from textual essentialism in the study of religion

Keywords: Zarathustra; Zoroaster; religious studies; religion; religious history; history of religion; Iranian history; law and religion; myth; ritual; hermeneutics; gender; festivals; Middle East; Near East; Central Asia; South Asia; Zoroastrian Studies; Iran; Islam; India; Judaism; Christianity; Manichaeism; Hinduism; The Kurds; Baha'i; the Classics; Mithraism, Religious Studies, Religious Studies