Religions in the Empire
The Achaemenids adhered to religious practices which can be labeled as “Zoroastrianism” even though it does not exactly present the form of Zoroastrianism we know from the theological writings in the Avesta and in Pahlavi sources. Despite this religious setting, the Achaemenids never were eager to p...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
2021
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A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire
Year: 2021, Pages: 1285-1302 |
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| Summary: | The Achaemenids adhered to religious practices which can be labeled as “Zoroastrianism” even though it does not exactly present the form of Zoroastrianism we know from the theological writings in the Avesta and in Pahlavi sources. Despite this religious setting, the Achaemenids never were eager to promote Zoroastrianism as a “religion of the state” to other groups in their empire. In the Elamite area, in Mesopotamia, and among the Jewish communities in Egypt and the province Jehud (Palestine) the local religions were practiced; when tension between these local religions and the administration broke out, it always happened because of political opposition, never as part of religious “intolerance” from the Achaemenids. So one has to conclude that the religious politics among the Achaemenids was based on “religious aequi-distance” to the religions in the empire. |
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| ISBN: | 1119071801 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Jacobs, Bruno, 1954 -, A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1002/9781119071860.ch88 |