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Crows Nest.
Allen & Unwin.
2003.
Colour photographic illustrations, xi + 244pp, notes and acknowledgements, index, paperback. "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, of Heaven and Hell, and of an eventual end to the world. Over several decades, Paul Kriwaczek, an award-winning TV 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, 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 beginnings of first pre-Christian millennium." Publisher's description. (When referring to this item please quote stockid 66113)
ISBN: 9781842126554
Related Subject Areas:
Ancient History
Central Asia
Christianity
History
Islam
Religion
Zoroastrianism
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