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The recent issue of Indogermanische Forschungen (129/2024) contains several interesting papers.
The table of contents of the latest issue (62/2) of the journal Iran:
Two new volumes of Anabasis are out; vols. 12–13 (2021-2022) are special issues with thematic papers edited by Marek Jan Olbrycht and Sabine Müller: Cities, trade, and roads: From the Mediterranean to Iran and the Indus Valley.
(more…)Azarnouche, Samra. 2024. Tectonique des mythes. Croyances et théories zoroastriennes sur le tremblement de terre. Revue de l’histoire des religions 241(2). 275–297.
While the earthquake is primarily a cosmogonic act provoked by the intrusion of Evil into Ohrmazd’s world, the Zoroastrian accounts describing the phenomenon also bear witness to a striking confluence of myth, mechanistic theories and biological analogies. The tradition conveyed by the texts (Bundahišn 21e, Dēnkard III.93 and Dādestān ī Dēnīg 69) attributes the earthquake sometimes to the demon Čišmag and his atmospheric acolytes, sometimes to the sorcerer Frāsyāb, two figures who also have in common that they are associated with drought. Some episodes featuring them also include a mysterious appearance by Spandarmad, the Earth goddess. These elements indicate that the Zoroastrian aetiology of earthquakes was far more narratively complex than the texts handed down to us give us to understand.
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The above article is part of an issue dedicated to earthquakes:
Azarnouche, Samra, Muriel Debié & Vassa Kontouma (eds.). 2024. Quand la terre tremble: apprivoiser le choc des séismes dans les temps anciens. Revue de l’histoire des religions 241(2).
Zoroastrian Esotericism is a special issue of Religiographies, vol. 3, no. 1, edited by Mariano Errichiello, Daniel J. Sheffield, and Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina.
New Perspectives on the Study of Esotericism and Zoroastrianism
Mariano Errichiello, SOAS University of London
Francesco Piraino, Giorgio Cini Foundation / Harvard Divinity School
Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina, University of Oxford
[PDF] 1-6
The Mazdean Esoteric Dimension between Ritual and Theology
Antonio Panaino, University of Bologna
[PDF] 7-26
Exploring Zoroastrianism and Esotericism in the Context of Global Religious History
Moritz Maurer, Institut für Religionswissenschaft, Universität Heidelberg
[PDF] 27-43
Vol. 15, no. 2 of the open access journal Entangled Religions is a special issue dedicated to the question of Religious Conversion in a Religiously Plural World.
Religious conversion is a phenomenon that has intrigued scholars, theologians, and sociologists for centuries. As the conscious choice of a particular form of religion over another, it is eminently a form of religious contact. Religious conversion may be approached psychologically, sociologically, and conceptually. The contributions of this special issue show all three approaches and cover a wide array of geographical, social, and religious contexts.
Benedikt Römer has an article on Neo-Zoroastrianism, titled Reversion, Revival, Resistance: Framing Iranian Neo-Zoroastrian Religiosities
Volume 10 of Dabir, dated 2023, is now available with two issues.
The table of contents of the latest issue (62/1) of the journal Iran:
The table of contents of the latest issue (58) of the journal Iranica Antiqua:
The first and second issues of volume 28 of Iran and the Caucasus are published and contain several interesting contributions. Below are listed the articles that deal with ancient Iran: