Holy Wealth: Accounting for This World and the Next in Religious Belief and Practice: Festschrift for John R. Hinnells

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Scholars of religion and history explore the interface between material and spiritual wealth, emphasizing Zoroastrians of ancient and modern time, but also encompassing positive and life-affirming aspects of religious traditions across many domains. Their topics include Mary Carpenter (1807-77): a Victorian educationist in Bombay, surrealism and some strategies of avoiding censorship in Iranian art, the divine and exalted status of the consecrated fire in Zoroastrianism, the Banaji and Mehta families: forging the Parsi community in Calcutta, and blindness in the Masnavi of Jalal al-din Rumi. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com) Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Acknowledgements ALAN WILLIAMS: Introduction ALMUT HINTZE: John Russell Hinnells – a Profile Publications of John R. Hinnells Notes on Contributors ROGER BECK: Individual and Community Self-Identity in the Mysteries of Mithras JAMSHEED K. CHOKSY: The Zoroastrian Creation Myth: Clues to Its Antiquity LANCE S. COUSINS †: On the Earliest Buddhist Schools NORA K. FIRBY †: Mary Carpenter (1807–1877). A Victorian Educationist in Bombay. AIDA FOROUTAN: Surrealism and Some Strategies of Avoidance of Censorship in Iranian Art RON GEAVES: Questioning the Category of “Spiritual Capital” Drawing upon Field Studies of ‘Spiritual Entrepreneurs’ and Their Role in the Economic and Social Development of British South Asian Muslims RICHARD F. GOMBRICH: Why is the kaṭhina robe so called? RICHARD L. GORDON: Cosmic Order, Nature, and Personal Well-Being in the Roman Cult of Mithras MARCIA HERMANSEN: Feasts of Paradise: Banqueting and Sacrifice in the Islamic Tradition ALMUT HINTZE: Scribes and Their Patrons: on the Merit of Copying Manuscripts in the Zoroastrian Tradition FIROZE M. KOTWAL: The Divine and Exalted Status of the Consecrated Fire in Zoroastrianism JESSE S. PALSETIA: Parsi Charity: a Historical Perspective on Religion, Community, and Donor-Patron Relations among the Parsis of India KEN PARRY: ‘What can the Pearl of a King do?’ The Idea of Holy Wealth in Byzantium DINYAR PATEL: The Banaji and Mehta Families: Forging the Parsi Community in Calcutta JENNY ROSE: Passages in India: Early 19th Century Yankee and Parsi Outings in and around Bombay MITRA SHARAFI: Parsi Life Writing: Memoirs and Family Histories of Modern Zoroastrians ALAN WILLIAMS: Blindness in the Masṉavi of Jalāl al-din Rumi