Title: Zoroastrian theology from the earliest times to the present day.
Authors: Dhalla, Maneckji Nusservanji, 1875-1956.
Publisher: AMS Press,
Year: 1972
Subjects: Zoroastrianism
Contents: I. Pre-Gathic period: from the earliest times to about 1000 B.C. -- 1. The primitive faith of Iran -- II. The Gathic period: about 1000 B.C. -- 2. Zoroastrianism in its early missionary stage -- 3. Zoroastrianism in the Gathas -- 4. Ahura Mazda -- 5. Mazda's ministering angels -- 6. Evil -- 7. Life after death -- 8. The final dispensation -- III. The Avestan period: from about B.C. 800 to about A.D. 200 at the latest -- 9. The Avestan people -- 10. Promulgation of the faith of Zarathushtra -- 11. The younger Avestan religion -- 12. Ahura Mazda -- 13. Amesha Spentas -- 14. Yazatas -- 15. Fravashis -- 16. Personified abstractions -- 17. Baghas -- 18. Evil -- 19. Death and beyond -- 20. The renovation -- 21. Zoroastrianism under the foreign yoke -- IV. The Pahlavi period: from the third to the ninth century -- 22. Zoroastrianism as taught by the Pahlavi works -- 23. The active propaganda of the faith -- 24. Sects -- 25. Heresies -- 26. Ormazd -- 27. Amshaspands -- 28. Izads -- 29. Farohars -- 30. Evil -- 31. Life after death -- 32. The renovation -- V. A period of decadence: from the seventh to the eighteenth century -- 33. Downfall of the Sasanians, and the aftermath -- 34. Exodus to India -- 35. Rivayats -- 36. Mystics and mysticism -- 37. Religious controversies -- 38. An epoch-making era in the history of Zoroastrian researches -- 39. Proselytizing come to be viewed with disfavour -- 40. Gujarati literature upon Zoroastrianism -- VI. A period of revival: Nineteenth century and after -- 41. The revival of learning among the Parsis -- 42. Introduction of the Western method of Iranian scholarship in India -- 43. Christian missionaries attack Zoroastrianism -- 44. The reform movement -- 45. Parsi theosophists -- 46. Zoroastrianism ceases to be a missionary religion -- 47. Conclusion.