Preface and Acknowledgments
Michael Stausberg: Contextualizing the Contexts. On the Study of Zoroastrian Rituals
MODELLING THEORY—THEORETICAL APPROACHES
Burkhard Gladigow: Sequenzierung von Riten und die Ordnung der Rituale
Jan A.M. Snoek: 'Initiations' in Theory and in Zoroastrianism
Jens Kreinath: Meta-Theoretical Parameters for the Analysis and Comparison of Two Recent Approaches to the Study of the Yasna
COMPARATIVE STUDIES
James W. Boyd and Ron G. Williams: The Art of Ritual in a Comparative Context
Dorothea Lüddeckens: Bruch und Kontinuität in Todesritualen. Beobachtungen zu westeuropäischen und zoroastrischen Bestattungen
Gernot Windfuhr: Zoroastrian and Taoist Ritual: Cosmology and Sacred Numerology
Antonio Panaino: Aspects of the 'Interiorization' of the Sacrifice in the Zoroastrian Tradition
RITUAL TEXTS—RITUALS IN TEXTS
Prods Oktor Skjærvø: Smashing Urine: On Yasna 48.10
Jean Kellens: Les précautions rituelles et la triade du comportement
Almut Hintze: On the Ritual Significance of the Yasna Haptaŋhāiti
Philip G. Kreyenbroek: Ritual and Rituals in the Nērangestān
Shaul Shaked: The Yasna Ritual in Pahlavi Literature
RITUAL PERFORMANCES AND PRACTICES
Albert de Jong: Sub specie maiestatis: Reflections on Sasanian Court Rituals
Anders Hultgård: Ritual Community Meals in Ancient Iranian Religion
Firoze M. Kotwal and Jamsheed K. Choksy: To Praise the Souls of the Deceased and the Immortal Spirits of the Righteous Ones: The Staomi or Stūm Ritual's History and Functions
Ramiyar P. Karanjia: The Bāj-dharnā (Drōn Yašt) and its Place in Zoroastrian Rituals
Mario Vitalone: Fires and the Establishment of ātaš bahrāms in the Zoroastrian Tradition
Sarah Stewart: The Ātaš nu gīt: A Reconstitutive Ritual of Recital
Carlo G. Cereti: Prejudice vs. Reality. Zoroastrians and their Rituals as Seen by two 19th Century Italian Travellers
Marzban Giara / Ramiyar P. Karanjia / Michael Stausberg: Manekji on the Religious/Ritual Practices of the Iranian Zoroastrians: An English Translation of a Passage from his Travel Report in Gujarati (1865)
THE INTERACTION OF RITUAL TRADITIONS
Werner Sundermann: Zarathustra der Priester und Prophet in der Lehre der Manichäer
Sabine Kalinock: Supernatural Intercession to Earthly Problems: Sofreh Rituals Among Shiite Muslims and Zoroastrians in Iran
Beate Schmermbeck: „O Herr, erhöre unser Monāǧāt": Zarathustrische Traditionslinien einer persischen Gebetsgattung zwischen Indien und Iran
Robert Langer: From Private Shrine to Pilgrim-Center: The Spectrum of Zoroastrian Shrines in Iran
RITUAL CHANGE—CHANGING RITUALS
Dietrich Huff: Archaeological Evidence of Zoroastrian Funerary Practices
Katayun Mazdapour: Kontinuität und Wandel in den Ritualen der iranischen Zarathustrier
Michael Stausberg: Monday-Nights at the Banaji, Fridays at the Aslaji: Ritual Efficacy and Transformation in Bombay City
Abstracts
List of Illustrations
Colour Plates
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