Pious Citizens: Reforming Zoroastrianism in India and Iran

Contents

Contents List of Illustrations • xi Acknowledgments • xiii Introduction Modernity, Religion, and the Production of Knowledge • 1 1. Bombay and Murmurs of Reform Religion as “Civilization” and “Progress” • 30 2. The Protestant Challenge to Zoroastrianism • 47 3. The Parsi Response Rational Religion and the Rethinking of Tradition • 71 4. Western Religious Studies Scholarship Historicism and Evolutionism • 91 5. Parsi Religious Reform in the Second Generation The Recovery of “True” Religion • 110 6. The Parsi Rediscovery of Ancient Iran • 142 7. Iranian Nationalism and the Zoroastrian Past • 163 8. Kay Khosrow Shahrokh Rational Religion and Citizenship in Iran • 184 Conclusion Religion and the Creation of Pious Citizens • 196 Notes • 215 Bibliography • 245 Index • 261 ...