[Health and salvation: the Mazdaznan-movement in the context of its beginnings].

Résumé

There are diverse religious groups which have developed special forms of "methodical lifestyle" (Max Weber). Projects of life reform and new religious movements around 1900 brought up specific ways of living and influenced one another in respect to ideas and practices. Using the example of the Mazdaznan-Movement some forms of interdependencies will be demonstrated. Since the group formed in the U.S.A. at the turn of the 20th century I will try to contextualize its central practices such as vegetarianism, intestinal care and breathing exercises within the specific context of American cultural and religious history.