Thesis graduate non-Abrahamic religions. Analytical approach to burial practices in Zoroastrianism
- Author:
- Mahdi Honarjoo
- Level:
- Master
- Subject(s):
- Non-Abrahamic religions
- Language:
- Farsi
- Faculty:
- Faculty of Religions
- Year:
- 2015
- Publisher:
- URD Press
- Supervisor(s):
- Seyyed Saeed Reza Montazeri
- Advisor(s):
- Mostafa Farhoudi
dead are buried with it in a certain way but not limited Zoroastrianism and even today many different ways to deal with the dead Zoroastrians in the world. Perhaps in the past the main reason for investing and how to deal with the dead cellar to preserve the sanctity of the four elements, water, earth, fire and wind. But this reason of the solar year 1300 onwards or forgotten or not important. Because in Zoroastrianism washed with water and wash their dead, and the dead in the grave and the soil, and in India and other places, dead after a fire destroys and removes the crypt method investments Iranian Zoroastrians in Iran shortly after the cremation that was not welcome. In India, apart from the method of burning the dead, like the crypt method is performed. Zoroastrian priests for burning and burial because they are what they are the reason books and other texts of the Avesta, the Zoroastrian religion of contradictions.