Ringer (history and Asian languages and civilizations, Amherst College) explores how Western definitions of modernity and modern religion were variously interpreted, accepted, rejected, and modified by Zoroastrian religious reformers from 1830 to 1940. She considers Bombay and murmurs of reform, the Protestant challenge to Zoroastrianism, the Parsi response, Western religious studies scholarship, Parsi religious reform in the second generation, the Parsi rediscovery of ancient Iran, Iranian nationalism and the Zoroastrian past, and Kay Khosrow Shahrokh. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)