TY - GEN AU - Naasen Tandberg,Håkon TI - Relational Religion : Fires as Confidants in Parsi Zoroastrianism SN - 9783666564741 PY - 2019///0715 PB - Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht KW - Zoroastrianism KW - bicssc KW - Theology & Religion KW - Holy KW - Fire KW - Parsi N1 - Open Access N2 - Håkon Naasen Tandberg explores how, when, and why humans relate to the non-human world. Based on two ethnographic fieldworks among the Parsis in Mumbai, the research focuses on the role of temple fires in the lives of present-day Parsi Zoroastrians in India as an empirical case. Through four ethnographic portraits, the reader will get a deeper look into the lives of four Parsi individuals, and how their individual biographies, personalities, and interhuman relationships, along with religious identities and roles, shape—and to a certain extent are shaped by—their personal relationships with non-human entities. The book combines affordance theory, exchange theory, and social support to analyze such relationships, and offers suggestive evidence that relationships with non-human entities—in this case the Zoroastrian temple fires—can be experienced as no less real, important, or meaningful than those with other human beings UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24811/1/1005294.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24811/1/1005294.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/24811/1/1005294.pdf UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/27086 ER -