Philip G Kreyenbroek

Biographic Data

ID4688744
NAMEPhilip G Kreyenbroek
GIVEN NAMESPhilip G
FAMILY NAMEKreyenbroek
SIGNATUREKREYENBROEK P G
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Göttingen
ORCID0000-0003-2363-9766
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR13
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1991
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2016
H-INDEX1

  • Religious Knowledge in Oral and Written Traditions. The Case of Zoroastrianism

    Open AccessPhilip G KreyenbroekCHAPTERWissen in Bewegung2016

  • Introduction to the special issue

    Philip G Kreyenbroek, Philip Kreyenbroek et al.ARTICLEKurdish Studies2016

    The articles in this volume deal with recent developments concerning the Yezidis. They focus on the consequences of IS’s attempted genocide of Yezidis in the Sinjar region, and on aspects of the current public and academic discourse on Yezidis and their religion.ABSTRACT IN KURMANJIDestpêk bo hejmara taybet: Êzdiyatî û Lêkolînên li ser êzdiyan di serê sedsala 21an deDanasîna hejmara taybet: Êzdiyatî û xebatên li ser êzdiyan di destpêka sedsala 21…

  • Yezidi Spirits? On the question of Yezidi beliefs

    Philip G Kreyenbroek, Philip Kreyenbroek et al.ARTICLEKurdish Studies2016

    While the Yezidi tradition undoubtedly has certain core characteristics, a more or less “logically” coherent system of beliefs is rarely described as one of these. The book under review deals with beliefs about a wide range of Yezidi “Holy Beings” and seeks to describe the “essentials” of Yezidism in this respect. This calls into question both the nature of Yezidi beliefs, and the methodological approach used here to analyse these. For the record…

  • Zoroastrianism as an Imperial Religion

    Philip G KreyenbroekCHAPTERThe Everlasting Flame2013

  • Living Zoroastrianism

    Philip G KreyenbroekBOOKLiving Zoroastrianism2013

    This text describes the realities of modern Parsi religion through 30 interviews in which urban Parsis belonging to different social milieus and religious schools of thought discuss various aspects of their religious lives. Zoroastrianism, the faith founded by the Iranian prophet Zarathustra, originated around 1000BCE and is widely regarded as the world's first revealed religion. Although the number of its followers declined dramatically in the c…

  • Oral Literature of Iranian Languages

    Philip G Kreyenbroek, Ulrich MarzolphEDITORBOOKOral Literature of Iranian…2010

    A new History of Persian Literature in 18 Volumes. Persian literature is the jewel in the crown of Persian culture. It has profoundly influenced the literatures of Ottoman Turkey, Muslim India and Turkic Central Asia and been a source of inspiration for Goethe, Emerson, Matthew Arnold and Jorge Luis Borges among others. Yet Persian literature has never received the attention it truly deserves. A History of Persian Literature answers this need and…

  • Zoroastrianism under the Achaemenians

    Philip G KreyenbroekCHAPTERThe World of Achaemenid Persia2010

  • God and Sheikh Adi are Perfect

    Khalil Jindy Rashow, Philip G Kreyenbroek et al.ARTICLEIran and the Caucasus2007Cited by: 2

  • Zoroaster in History , G. Gnoli, Biennial Yarshater Lecture Series No. 2, New York

    Open AccessPhilip G KreyenbroekARTICLEIranian Studies2003

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  • Millennialism and Eschatology in the Zoroastrian Tradition

    Philip G KreyenbroekCHAPTERImagining the End2002

  • Living Zoroastrianism

    Open AccessPhilip G KreyenbroekBOOKLiving Zoroastrianism2001

    Part 1 The background: classical Zoroastrianism common Parsi observances - discussion of a near-comprehensive range of observances which are known to most Parsis but have seldom been described in Western sources the Parsis in India - discussion of relevant aspects of parsi community life and history. Part 2 The interviews: traditionalists neo-traditionalists modernist views eclecticism in religious lives esoteric beliefs religion as heritage. Par…

  • J.K. Choksy, Conflict and Cooperation

    Open AccessPhilip G Kreyenbroek, Kreyenbroek KreyenbroekARTICLEIndo-Iranian Journal1999

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  • Kurdish Ethnonationalism

    Eric Hooglund, Nader Entessar et al.ARTICLEMiddle East Report1993

  • Ērbedestān

    Open AccessPhilip G KreyenbroekARTICLEJournal of the Royal Asiatic…1991

    Ērbedestān: an Avesta-Pahlavi text. Edited and Translated by Helmut Humbach in cooperation with Josef Elfenbein. (Münchener Studien zur Sprachwissenschaft, Beiheft 15, Neue Folge.) pp. 127. Munich, R. Kitzinger, 1990. - Volume 1 Issue 3