I An Ancient Faith: Zarathushtra – Prophet and Priest
1 The Gathas of the Prophet Zarathushtra
2 The Transmission of the Gathas
3 The Authorship and Integrity of the Gathas
4 Dating the Prophet – the Gathic Evidence (and other suggestions)
5 The Problem of the Prophet’s Homeland
6 Zarathushtra’s Death

II Ahura Mazda, Spenta Mainyu and the Divine Heptad
1 Zarathushtra on Ahura Mazda and the “Divine Relationship”
2 Spenta Mainyu and the Individual Amesha Spentas: their functions and liturgical representations
3 The Divine Heptad and the Individual Zoroastrian
4 Ahura Mazda and the Amesha Spentas in the Later Literature
5 Some Other Important Ahuric References

III Zoroastrian Eschatology
1 The Eschatology of the Gathas
2 The Eschatology of the Later Literature

IV The Two Existences and the Problem of Evil
1 Menog and Getig
2 The Problem of Evil Creatures in the Vendidad
3 Eschatological Considerations: The Stages of History and the Human Journey

V Zoroastrianism and Fire
1 Zoroastrianism in Exile
2 Sacred Fires, Holy Places

VI A Living Faith – Zoroastrian Worship, Rituals and Other Observances
1 The Yasna, an “Inner” Ceremony
2 The Afrinagan, an “Outer” Ceremony
3 Birth and Early Infancy
4 Initiation – the Navjote Ceremony
5 Initiation and Vocation – the Zoroastrian Priesthood
6 Marriage
7 Death and Funerary Rites
8 Purification: the Barashnum i-no shab
9 The Instrumental and Expressive Functions of Zoroastrian Ritual
10 Holy Days, Holy Months and a Disputed Calendar
11 A Worshipping Community and Three Zoroastrian Prayers

VII A Living Faith – Zoroastrian Ethics
1 Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds
2 The Five Faculties and Truth
3 Justice
4 The Unbreakable Nature of the Contract as an Ethical Paradigm
5 Putting it into Practice: Charity, Benevolence and the Parsi Zoroastrians

VIII Identity, Unity and Disparity: Zoroastrianism Today
1 Who is a Zoroastrian?
2 The Europeans and the Zoroastrians: Orthodoxy and Reform, Text and Praxis
3 The Status of Women in Contemporary Zoroastrianism
4 Other Issues in Contemporary Zoroastrianism and a Glance to the Future

Appendix 1: Zoroastrianism, Judaism and Christianity
Appendix 2: The Roman Mithraic Mysteries

Chart 1: The historical relationship between Zoroastria and Judeo-Christian Religion
Chart 2: The possible thematic relationships between Vedic, Zoroastrian and Judeo-Christian Religion
Chart 3: Ahura Mazda, Spenta Mainyu and the Amesha Spentas