SOURCE: “Scriptures and Doctrines” in Zoroastrianism: A Beleaguered Faith, Advent Books, 1983, pp. 13-49.
In the following essay, Pangborn analyzes the development of Zoroastrianism from the qualified monotheism of Zoroaster's Gathas, through the ritual polytheism of the Later Avesta, to the controversy between the purist reform movement and the orthodoxy of modern Zoroastrianism.
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