ebooks Peace In Northeast Asia: Resolving Japan's Territorial and Maritime Disputes With China; Korea and the Russian by Thomas J. Schoenbaum in History

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Zoroastrianism is one of the world's great ancient religions. In present-day Iran; significant communities of Zoroastrians (who take their name from the founder of the faith; the remarkable religious reformer Zoraoster) still practice the rituals and teach the moral precepts that once undergirded the officially state-sanctioned faith of the mighty Sasanian empire. Beyond Iran; the Zoroastrian disapora is significant especially in India; where the Gujurati-speaking community of exiles from post-Sasanian Iran call themselves ""Parsis."" But there are also significant Zoroastrian communities to be found elsewhere; such as in the USA; Britain; and Canada; where western cultural contexts have shaped the religion in intriguing ways and directions. This new; thorough and wide-ranging introduction will appeal to anyone interested in discovering more about the faith that bequeathed the contrasting words ""Magi"" and ""magic;"" and whose adherents still live according to the code of ""Good Thoughts; Good Words; Good Deeds."" The central Zoroastrian concept that human beings are continually faced with a choice between the path of ""good"" and ""evil;"" represented by the contrasting figures of Ahura Mazda and Ahriman; inspired thinkers as diverse as Voltaire; Mozart; and Nietzsche. Jenny Rose shows why Zoroastrianism remains one of the world's most inspiring and perennially fascinating systems of ethics and belief.