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La Question du rituel

Le mazdéisme ancien et achéménide / The Problem of the Ritual within Ancient and Achaemenidean Mazdaism

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ID3784523
AuthorsClarisse Herrenschmidt, Jean Kellens
Year1994
Volume85
Issue1
Pages45-67
Publication date1994-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueArchives de sciences sociales des religions (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0335-5985 • E-ISSN: 1777-5825
PublisherPERSEE Program (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3406/assr.1994.1425
OpenAlexW1995745358
LanguageEN
Citations received4

Confronted by the fact that since the foundation of Zoroastrian studies the erudite have not been preoccupied with ritual, the authors have undertaken to effect the first steps in this direction. J. Kellens, in the first part, takes stock of the relation between the ceremony of the sacrificial rite and the Old-Avestan texts which accompany it and which were composed orally around 1000 B.C. The rites and texts hinge on the notion of organized arrangement: the arrangement of the world in the cosmogonical act of Ahura Mazda; and the arrangement of the rite of men. C. Herrenschmidt, in the second part, shows that despite the differences of languages and sources, the Mazdaian ritual of Achaemenidae (550-330 B.C.) appears to be the continuity of the contents of the most ancient texts, but with a major transformation: the legitimacy of the Persian king was founded in and by the rite. It is thus observed that the question of ritual was at one time at the centre of the relation between the political and religious domains in Iran

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Unique citing works4
Citations per year0,17
Citation span2002 - 2022 (21)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 4

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