Relational Religion : : Fires as Confidants in Parsi Zoroastrianism / / Håkon Naasen Tandberg

• Autore: Tandberg Håkon Naasen
• Pubblicazione: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019; Gottingen : , : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, , 2019
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 p.)
• Disciplina: 295/.38
• Soggetto topico: Zoroastrianism
• Soggetto geografico: Mumbai (India) Ethnic relations
• Soggetto non controllato: Theology & Religion; Holy; Fire; Parsi; Zoroastrianism
• Nota di contenuto: Approching the fires -- The portraits -- Analyzing the fires.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Relational Religion
• ISBN: 3-666-56474-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910332649203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II