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C**N
Excellent if dry introduction
Rose has the unenviable position here of trying to answer a lot of questions about both modern and ancient Zoroastrianism quickly for an audience largely unfamiliar with pre-Islamic Iranian civilization and the myriad of Persian languages involved. Rose also has to cover a lot of modern controversies within Zoroastrianism, parallels with other religions, and beliefs about Zoroastrianism that are commonly held if misguided. This leads to some dry tone as a lot of basic vocabulary, current history, and organizational structures have to be explained. It also moves rapidly from organizational history, religious history, Parsi and Zarathustri customs and first-hand accounts of those customs, liturgical calendars and controversies, and the state of various diasporas.With that said, Rose does an excellent job, and it becomes clear that Zoroastrianism has a fairly clear relationship to Talmudic Judaism (and a large overlap in practices, many of which Judaism does not share with Islamic and Christian practices) and with Vedic Hinduism, which has conceptual cognates.An excellent introduction but it is a little dry.
A**N
Enjoyed reading it
Very informative book. Enjoyed reading it. We need more books like this on Zoroastrianism.
L**S
Five Stars
interesting religion
T**R
The information contained in the book
An excellent addition to my research
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