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SUMMARY:CERES Research Colloquium 24.10.2022
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DESCRIPTION:Neda Darabian\n\n"Encounters of the Zoroastrian\, Jewish and C
 hristian Specialists: Magic Labels and Demonization of the Religious Other
 "\n\nAbstract\n\nIran\, with its religious plurality and its conversion fr
 om Zoroastrianism to Islam\, provides rich opportunities for studying the 
 interactions between different religious communities. My dissertation atte
 mpts to provide a better understanding of the relationship between Zoroast
 rians\, Christians and Jews in the late antiquity by examining the encount
 ers between their religious specialists\, and the changing nature of their
  interactions as the Persianate world shifted from Zoroastrian to Islamic 
 rule. The focus of this presentation is to discuss the encounter\, overlap
 ping power and competition between Zoroastrian\, Jewish and Christian reli
 gious specialists based on the discourse of ‘magic’. I seek to study a
 ) how institutional religious specialists such as Zoroastrian priests\, ra
 bbis and bishops demonized their opponents and employed ‘magic’ accusa
 tions as a rhetorical strategy to marginalize their opponents and draw the
  borderlines of their own religious identity and b) to examine the consequ
 ences of magic labels for interreligious relations in this era and area an
 d how they were used as a polemical tool to create boundaries and marginal
 ize the religious others.
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/en/events/ceres-research-colloquium-24102022-en-1
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