| Description |
1 online resource (245 pages) |
| Series |
Critical Studies in Religion/Religionswissenschaft Ser. 13 |
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Critical Studies in Religion/Religionswissenschaft Ser. ; 13
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| Contents |
Approching the fires -- The portraits -- Analyzing the fires |
| Summary |
Håkon Naasen Tandberg explores how, when, and why humans relate to the non-human world. Based on two ethnographic fieldworks among the Parsis in Mumbai, the research focuses on the role of temple fires in the lives of present-day Parsi Zoroastrians in India as an empirical case. Through four ethnographic portraits, the reader will get a deeper look into the lives of four Parsi individuals, and how their individual biographies, personalities, and interhuman relationships, along with religious identities and roles, shape-and to a certain extent are shaped by-their personal relationships with non-human entities. The book combines affordance theory, exchange theory, and social support to analyze such relationships, and offers suggestive evidence that relationships with non-human entities-in this case the Zoroastrian temple fires-can be experienced as no less real, important, or meaningful than those with other human beings |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-241) and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on 10/26/2020) |
| Subject |
Zoroastrianism -- Rituals.
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Fire -- Religious aspects -- Zoroastrianism.
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Parsees -- Religious life -- India -- Mumbai
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Zoroastrianism.
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Religion / Zoroastrianism.
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Zoroastrianism -- Rituals.
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Fire -- Religious aspects -- Zoroastrianism.
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Ethnic relations.
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Religion.
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| SUBJECT |
Mumbai (India) -- Ethnic relations
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| Subject |
India -- Mumbai.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020426126 |
| ISBN |
9783666564741 |
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3666564747 |
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3525564740 |
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9783525564745 |
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