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A Comparative Study of the Crimes Leading to the Death Penalty in the Quran, Zoroastrian Legal Sources, and the Penal Code of the Islamic Republic of Iran [PDF]
Religious Inquiries, 2020 This paper aims to examine the death penalty in Zoroastrianism, the Quran, and the laws of the Islamic Republic of Iran. By studying antient Zoroastrian texts, we face a variety of crimes and punishments such as murder, robbery, adultery, magic, rape ...
Fariba Sharifian +2 more
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Self‐Trust, Social Roles, and Autonomy
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We develop a comprehensive account of self‐trust in its role‐mediated, general and universal forms, highlight the connection between self‐trust and personal autonomy, and argue that we can have too much or too little self‐trust. Both can undermine personal autonomy.
Amy Mullin, Suddhasatwa Guharoy
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ZOROASTRIANISM AND TEMPLE ARCHITECTURE OF SCYTHIANS OF THE NORTH CAUCASUS
Гуманитарные и юридические исследования, 2021 The unique temple complex of Scythian time at the farm the Red Banner of Stavropol Krai built on canons of Zoroastrian temple architecture still is object of heated scientific debate.
D. V. Picalov
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The Dasātīr and the “Āẕar Kaivān school” in Historical Context: Origin and Later Development
Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2022 The present paper aims to offer a new understanding of the so-called “Zoroastrian Illuminative philosophers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries,” namely the Āẕar Kaivān school.
Takeshi Aoki
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Religious Diversity and Multi‐Religiosity in Singapore
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Can government‐mandated exposure to religious diversity both reinforce exclusive identities and cultivate “multi‐religiosity”? This study leverages the 2024 Global East Survey of Religion and Spirituality to investigate how Singapore's state‐mandated and managed pluralism impacts the religious lives of its citizens.
Corey Resweber, Bing Han, Fenggang Yang
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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”
The Muslim World, EarlyView.Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
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The Muslim World, EarlyView.Abstract This article discusses the concept of the Judeo‐Islamic God as a substantive and defensible alternative to the problematic concept of the “Judeo‐Christian God” in popular, political, and academic Western discourses. It argues that the transcendent monotheistic deity of Islam, Allāh, is a direct continuation of the composite deity of Rabbinic ...
Jeffry R. Halverson
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A newly discovered Persian variety: the case of “Zoroastrian Persian”
Orientalia Suecana, 2020 Using a corpus of contemporary Yazdi Zoroastrian oral literature, this article demonstrates that the Persian dialect found in many Zoroastrian songs is different from both Standard Persian and local (Yazdi) Persian.
Chams Bernard
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British Journal of Social Psychology, Volume 65, Issue 3, July 2026.Abstract The current research examined how inclusive versus exclusive conceptions of national identity were associated with interreligious contact avoidance across relatively public (neighbours) versus private (marriage) domains among majority and minority religious groups.
Kumar Yogeeswaran +2 more
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Being there for mom: The strengths of daughtering
Family Relations, Volume 75, Issue 3, Page 1703-1718, July 2026.Abstract Objective Daughters undertake daughtering, or the everyday role portrayal of contributing to a meaningful family relationship with their mothers, but the labor of it is often invisible. Background Using a strengths‐based approach, we investigated what daughters do well in their relationships with mothers.
Allison M. Alford +4 more
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