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Sto caricando le informazioni... In Search of Zarathustra: The First Prophet and the Ideas That Changed the World (2004)di Paul Kriwaczek
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. It seemed to be a very rambling story. The information wasn't organized well. It would have been better if it was chronological. The main part of the book is also history lessons on almost everything but Zarathustra. I suppose I was expecting more about Zoroastrianism and how it affected the traditions of later religions. Also, the way it's written makes it harder to get through. It's not very conversational. It feels stuffy. I've read textbooks that were more clearly written. The redeeming factor in all of this is that it does offer some information, if not exactly what I was looking for. The joke on the last line isn't too bad either. ( ) Kriwaczek combines intellectual curiosity, a sense of adventure, and enough historical/philosophical understanding not to insist on definitive answers to the kinds of questions that inspire the most rewarding journeys. He writes in the End Notes that his intent was 'more illustrative than scholarly,' and he is fun to travel with and listen to—on the eccentricities of Abraham Hyacynthe Anquetil du Perron, bowdlerized Roman Mithraism and the Cathar heresy to the Sarmatian influence on Gothic architecture, the pre-Islamic roots of Shi’ism and the fuzzy line between prophecy and imposture.That an ancient Persian seeker is the earliest known source for some of the ideas that became key religious tenets in the formulation of European identity shows us that cross-cultural fertilization has been the driving force in the development of human civilization since the Bronze Age. It's been weeks now since I finished this one, and I'm trying to think what I still remember of it! Just an interesting wander through history around the mysterious figure of Zarathustra: a little Nietzsche, travels in Iran & Afghanistan, ruins under London, etc. He makes a pretty decent case for elements of Zoroastrianism being present in the big three monotheisms. Also, more tidbits that I can use for this idea I have for a D&D setting based loosely on central Asia. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
IN SEARCH OF ZARATHUSTRA is a quest to trace the influence of the prophet the Greeks called Zoroaster and considered the greatest religious legislator of the ancient world. Long before the first Hebrew temple, before the birth of Christ or the mission of Muhammad, Zarathustra had taught of a single universal god, of the battle between Good and Evil, of the Devil, Heaven and Hell, and of an eventual end to the world. Over several decades, Paul Kriwaczek, an award-winning television producer, has cast his film-maker¿s eye across Europe and Central Asia, from Hadrian¿s Wall to the Oxus river, from the Pyrenees to the Hindu Kush. Passing via Nietzsche¿s interpretation of Zarathustra for a post-religious age, the Cathars of 13th-century France, the Bulgars of 9th-century Balkans, and the prophet Mani¿s revision of Zarathustra¿s message in the later Persian empire, Paul Kriwaczek then explores the religion of Mithras ¿ before going back past Alexander the Great¿s destruction of the Persian Empire, and the era of the great Persian kings Cyrus and Darius in the 6th century BC, to the beginning of the first pre-Christian millennium. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)295Religions Other Religions Zoroastrianism (Mazdaism ∙ Parseeism ∙ Mithraism)Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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