Mary Boyce wrote this account from direct fieldwork among Zoroastrian communities in Iran and India alongside the historical and textual record, following the tradition from ancient Persia through to the living Parsi and Iranian Zoroastrian communities she actually visited and studied, which is a different and stronger basis than a purely textual history would be. That combination of fieldwork and textual scholarship is its real evidentiary basis. This record has not independently traced a documented history of scholarly revision to her specific claims since 1979. Use it for established historical and doctrinal facts about Zoroastrianism from antiquity to the present.
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Mary Boyce's standard academic account of Zoroastrianism, built from direct fieldwork among Zoroastrian communities in Iran and India alongside the historical and textual record, from the leading historian of the tradition. NotesMary Boyce's standard scholarly account of Zoroastrianism, covering its history, scripture, cosmology, ritual and community life from ancient Persia through the modern Parsi and Iranian Zoroastrian communities. The leading academic reference on the tradition. Use for established historical and doctrinal facts about Zoroastrianism.
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AuthorMary Boyce
PublisherRoutledge and Kegan Paul, London
Publication Year1979
URLhttps://www.amazon.com/Zoroastrians-Religious-Beliefs-Practices-Library/dp/0415239036
Source Typeacademic monograph
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This source names India directly: "Zoroastrian communities in Iran and India alongside the historical and textual record, following the tradition from ancient Persia through to the living Parsi and Iranian Zoroastrian communities she..."
Source Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and PracticesMary Boyce
This source names Iran directly: "among Zoroastrian communities in Iran and India alongside the historical and textual record, following the tradition from ancient Persia through to the living Parsi and Iranian Zoroastrian..."
Source Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and PracticesMary Boyce
Claims Backed By This Source (375 claims)
This source backs 375 claims across the atlas. As facts: 240 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 42 holds, 1 held Differently. Plus 90 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Alphabet Letters, 108 claims: 54 well-attested, 54 general references.
- Articles, 73 claims: 71 well-attested, 2 general references.
- Practices, 43 claims: 37 well-attested, 6 general references.
- Rituals, 28 claims: 15 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 7 holds, 5 general references.
- Denominations, 20 claims: 2 well-attested, 15 holds, 1 held Differently, 2 general references.
- Religious Offices, 18 claims: 14 well-attested, 2 holds, 2 general references.
- Sacred Architecture, 13 claims: 8 well-attested, 3 holds, 2 general references.
- Mythical Creatures, 11 claims: 7 well-attested, 4 general references.
- Religious Roles & Titles, 11 claims: 6 well-attested, 4 holds, 1 general references.
- Religious Dress & Vestments, 10 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 general references.
- Sources, 10 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Sacred Objects & Ritual Items, 8 claims: 2 well-attested, 4 holds, 2 general references.
- Empires & Polities, 6 claims: 2 well-attested, 3 holds, 1 general references.
- Sacred Sites, 5 claims: 3 well-attested, 2 general references.
- Bodies of Water, 3 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Scripture Portions, 3 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Cities, 2 claims: 1 scholarly debate, 1 general references.
- Religious Events, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Spread Events, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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240Articles
A Calendar Accurate to the SecondA Closed CommunityA Community Shaped by Its HistoryA Creation Opposed at Every PointA Fire Kept Alight for Fifteen CenturiesA Law Book Used as a LiturgyA Moral Dualism with a Good EndA Name Shared with Vedic IndraA Practice in Decline and DisputeA Temple Whose Owner Is Still DebatedA Waystation Toward the Final RenovationA Year of Work Before the Fire Is LitAll the Lords of CreationAn Indo-Iranian Survivor in the AfternoonChoosing Sides in a Real WarCommunities of ZoroastrianismContinuity and Its DebatesDescendants of the Migration to IndiaDrujo Demana, Where the Wicked FallEntering the Good ReligionEquinox, Annunciation and the Turning of SpringEthics as Cosmic ParticipationEvening Between Fire and SleepFire as the Sign of Truth, Not an IdolFive Watches and a Sibling SymmetryGarodmana, the Zoroastrian ParadiseGood Thoughts, Good Words, Good DeedsGrades of Fire and the Fire TempleHereditary Priesthood And Its Contemporary DebatesHereditary Priesthood And Its Modern PressuresInvestiture at the Navjote, and Wearing It Every Day AfterKeeping the Sacred Elements PureMaintaining the Sacred FireNavar and Martab: The Steps to a Fire Temple's Inner RitesNight Prayer and the Guarded WorldNot Necessarily ForeverObedience, the Guardian of the Night and of the SoulOhrmazd Against the Lie, and a Living TraditionPreserving the Iranian TraditionSeventy Two Chapters Before the FireSeventy Two Threads, Woven So the Wearer Counts Them by FeelThe God of the Covenant Who Sees AllThe Goddess of the Heavenly WatersThe Herbad as Ervad, Still Ordained TodayThe Hostile Spirit, and the Ethics of ChoiceThe Ideal Noon Showing 51 to 100 of 153 entities carrying this claim.
Holds
42Sacred Objects & Ritual Items
General References
90Showing 1 to 50 of 88 entities carrying this claim.
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