Thursday April 10, 2008 7:00 pm
Stanford University
Cummings Art Building ROOM 2
Professor Almut Hinze
“Defeating Death: Eschatology in Zoroastrianism, Judaism and Christianity”
The doctrine of the Last Things, or eschatology, is an important component not only of the Zoroastrian, but also of the Jewish, Christian and Islamic religions. Themes associated with eschatology in these four traditions include ideas of judgement – both Individual after a person has died and universal at the end of time -, heaven as a place of reward and hell as one of punishment, and a redeemer who resurrects the dead and ushers in a new era of perfect existence and everlasting life in the presence of God. The similarities in eschatological teachings between the so-called Abrahamic religions, on the one hand, and those of Zoroastrianism, on the other, are even more remarkable if one considers that such eschatological ideas are not found in the texts Read More »
March 21, 2008 – 11:39 pm
... The first celebrations have also been attached to the Persian religious reformer, Zoroaster, who is generally agreed to have been a real person, his name appearing in some of the earliest writings, such as the Avesta. Zoroaster founded the religious system of ancient Persia and is even mentioned by Greek and Latin authors such as Plato, Pliny, Plutarch and Dio Chrysostom. There is no general agreement on when he lived; estimates range from 5,000 years before the Trojan War to 660 B.C. ...
Nevruz – the new year – the spring equinox, the day when night and day are approximately the same length of time, the first day of spring, a day of ancient rites from pagan times The Kurds consider Nevruz their day of liberation from oppression as expressed in Read More »
March 17, 2008 – 11:39 pm
Zoroastrian Association of Houston & Zoroastrian Association of North Texas in co-operation with FEZANA – Khorshed Jungalwala Lecture Series present Zoroastrianism: Rock, Paper & Spirituality
Dr. Almut Hintze: SOAS, University of London, UK – Khorshed Jungalwala Lecture Series Speaker. Prof. Almut Hintze holds degrees from the Universities of Heidelberg, Oxford, Erlangen and Berlin. After teaching and researching for six years as Assistant Professor at the Free University of Berlin, she was Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1996) and a Research Fellow at Clare Hall College, Cambridge (1997-2000). From 1998, she has lectured on Zoroastrianism at the Read More »
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