02414nam 22004933a 450 991033264920332120240424225722.097836665647413666564747(CKB)4100000008965410(OAPEN)1005294(ScCtBLL)fae18069-6ab4-4e3e-9a16-7a2fd5eba5b7(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/27086(EXLCZ)99410000000896541020211214i20192019 uu enguuuuu---auuuutxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierRelational Religion : Fires as Confidants in Parsi Zoroastrianism /Håkon Naasen TandbergVandenhoeck & Ruprecht2019Gottingen :Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,2019.1 online resource (1 p.)9783525564745 3525564740 Approching the fires -- The portraits -- Analyzing the fires.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.ZoroastrianismbicsscMumbai (India)Ethnic relationsTheology & ReligionHolyFireParsiZoroastrianismZoroastrianism295/.38Tandberg Håkon Naasen1070536ScCtBLLScCtBLLBOOK9910332649203321Relational Religion2564256UNINA