Mystics, Monarchs, and Messiahs
Mystics, Monarchs, and Messiahs

Author: Kathryn Babayan

Publisher: Harvard CMES

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 640

ISBN-13: 9780932885289

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Focusing on idealists and visionaries who believed that Justice could reign in our world, this book explores the desire to experience utopia on earth. Reluctant to await another existence, individuals with ghuluww, or exaggeration, emerged at the advent of Islam, expecting to attain the apocalyptic horizon of Truth.

Evil, Good and Gender
Evil, Good and Gender

Author: Jamsheed Kairshasp Choksy

Publisher: New York : Peter Lang

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13:

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Societies often link the phenomena of evil and good to the feminine and masculine genders and, by extension, to women and men. Evil, Good, and Gender explores doctrinal and societal developments within a context of malevolence that came to be attributed to the feminine and the female in contrast to benevolence ascribed to the masculine and the male by Zoroastrians or Mazda worshipers. This study authoritatively elucidates implications of the feminine and the masculine in religion and suggests that images in theology have been fundamental for defining both women's and men's social roles and statuses.