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

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)