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PROF Almut Hintze's Outputs (106)

Holy Wealth: Accounting for This World and the Next in Religious Belief and Practice. Festschrift for John R. Hinnells (2017)
Book
Hintze, A., & Williams, A. (Eds.). (2017). Holy Wealth: Accounting for This World and the Next in Religious Belief and Practice. Festschrift for John R. Hinnells. Harrassowitz. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvcwnzwv

This volume, presented to John R. Hinnells on his 75th Birthday, focuses on the interface between material and spiritual wealth, a theme that runs across many religions and cultures and that incorporates a major strand of John R. Hinnells’s particula... Read More about Holy Wealth: Accounting for This World and the Next in Religious Belief and Practice. Festschrift for John R. Hinnells.

Ideas of Self-Definition Among Zoroastrians of Post-Revolutionary Iran (2016)
Book Chapter
Stewart, S. (2016). Ideas of Self-Definition Among Zoroastrians of Post-Revolutionary Iran. In A. Williams, S. Stewart, & A. Hintze (Eds.), The Zoroastrian Flame: Exploring Religion, History and Tradition (353-370). I.B. Tauris. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350989436.ch-018

Research into religious minorities in Iran since the Islamic Revolution of 1979 has been fragmentary and rarely includes the personal testimony that encompasses memory, lived experience, devotional life and religious views. This Chapter draws on inte... Read More about Ideas of Self-Definition Among Zoroastrians of Post-Revolutionary Iran.

A Zoroastrian Vision (2016)
Book Chapter
Hintze, A. (2016). A Zoroastrian Vision. In A. Williams, S. Stewart, & A. Hintze (Eds.), The Zoroastrian Flame: Exploring Religion, History and Tradition (77-96). I.B Tauris

Mihr Yašt. (2014)
Journal Article
Hintze, A. (2014). Mihr Yašt. Encyclopædia Iranica,

Monotheism the Zoroastrian Way (2014)
Journal Article
Hintze, A. (2014). Monotheism the Zoroastrian Way. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 24(2), 225-249. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1356186313000333

This article examines seemingly monotheistic, polytheistic and dualistic features of Zoroastrianism from the point of view of the Zoroastrian creation myth. Exploring the personality of the principal deity, Ahura Mazdā, the origin of the spiritual a... Read More about Monotheism the Zoroastrian Way.

Zoroastrian funerary practices and eschatological ideas (2013)
Book Chapter
Stewart, S. (2013). Zoroastrian funerary practices and eschatological ideas. In S. Stewart, F. Punthakey Mistree, U. Sims-Williams, A. Hintze, & P. Godrej (Eds.), The Everlasting Flame, Zoroastrianism in History and Imagination (34-41). I.B. Tauris

The Everlasting Flame, Zoroastrianism in History and Imagination (2013)
Book
Stewart, S., Punthakey Mistree, F., Sims-Williams, U., Hintze, A., & Godrej, P. (Eds.). (2013). The Everlasting Flame, Zoroastrianism in History and Imagination. I.B. Tauris. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780755624096

With such ancient beginnings, Zoroastrianism is as remarkably enduring as it is venerable. The principle religion of Iran until the Advent of Islam, it has also been influential beyond its own followers, interacting with other, younger faiths and sha... Read More about The Everlasting Flame, Zoroastrianism in History and Imagination.

Perceptions of the Yasna Haptanghāiti (2013)
Book Chapter
Hintze, A. (2013). Perceptions of the Yasna Haptanghāiti. In E. Pirart (Ed.), Le sort des Gâthâs et autres études iraniennes in memoriam Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin (53-73). Peeters

This article examines some Younger Avestan expressions and liturgical passages which highlight their indebtedness to the Older Avesta, in particular to the Yasna Hapta∞haiti. It argues that the first eight chapters of the Yasna have, like the Yasna H... Read More about Perceptions of the Yasna Haptanghāiti.

In Our Time: The Cult of Mithras (2012)
Digital Artefact
Bragg, M., Woolf, G., Hintze, A., & North, J. (2012). In Our Time: The Cult of Mithras. [Radio programme]

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the cult of Mithras, a mystery religion that existed in the Roman Empire from the 1st to the 4th centuries AD. Also known as the Mysteries of Mithras, its origins are uncertain. Academics have suggested a link with... Read More about In Our Time: The Cult of Mithras.

On the Prophetic and Priestly Authority of Zarathustra (2012)
Book Chapter
Hintze, A. (2012). On the Prophetic and Priestly Authority of Zarathustra. In J. Choksy, & J. Dubeansky (Eds.), Gifts to a Magus: Indo-Iranian Studies Honoring Firoze Kotwal (43-58). Peter Lang Publishing