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Newly-found Evidence of Sassanid Simple-pit Burial at Qaleh Iraj, Pishvā, Iran [PDF]
One of the most important and, at the same time, uncertain subjects related to Sassanid period is the recognition of common burial customs. Despite great attempts of Zoroastrian religious texts to represent a uniform burial tradition across the whole ...
Mehdi Mousavinia +2 more
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ABSTRACT Waves of psychological research over 50 years have resulted in the development of scales to measure psychological resilience. Multiple psychological resilience definitions and factors have emerged during this time, making its measurement complex.
Judye L. Margetts +4 more
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Reversion, Revival, Resistance
Both in Iran and India, Zoroastrian communities have traditionally possessed a strong and rigid ethno-religious identity. In recent decades, however, debates regarding the opening of the communities to converts have become increasingly significant.
Benedikt Römer
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A comparative study of temporary marriage in Zoroastrianism and Islam [PDF]
In Zoroastrian law, there are several indications that denote to the temporary marriage as a legal institution and this can be compared to one law in Imami jurisprudence.
Hossein Badamchi +2 more
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Shari\u27ah, Democracy, and the Modern Nation-State: Some Reflections on Islam, Popular Rule, and Pluralism [PDF]
In this article, the author examines two considerations that are critical to a full and meaningful assessment of the degree to which Islam, and Islamic law in particular, can find authentic expressions of themselves under what may reasonably be ...
Jackson, Sherman A.
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Orientalism, Postcolonialism, And The Achaemenid Empire: Meditations On Bruce Lincoln'S Religion, Empire, And Torture 1 [PDF]
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/88128/1/j.2041-5370.2011.00026.x ...
Colburn, Henry P.
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Reframing covenant for nursing: From individual commitments to covenant with society
Abstract Today's constrained healthcare environment can make it very difficult for nurses to provide compassionate, competent, and ethical care, and yet their continued commitment to care is viewed as requisite. Nurses' commitment to care of patients, enmeshed with professional identity, may be understood as heroic. A few nursing scholars have advanced
Dorolen Wolfs +4 more
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Cursing the daēvas as an Example of Verbal Aggression in the Zoroastrian “Declaration of Faith”?
This article examines the notion of verbal aggression evident in Zoroastrian prayers. Although one may be surprised that a declaration of Zoroastrian faith, called Fravarānē (Yasna 12), begins with the words “I hate / abhor / am disgusted” instead of “I
Kinga Paraskiewicz
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Negotiating the salientization of identity: Hindu? Indian? American?
Abstract This chapter starts by briefly decluttering how religion is defined through western theistic attributes, then explores students’ Hindu experiences while centering a counter socio‐religio‐cultural narrative of lived religion. I look into systemic institutional misalignments stemming from white Christian supremacy and lastly, aspects of student ...
Gaurav Harshe
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The Antiquity of the Avesta [PDF]
Paper read before the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, read 26th June 1896. Dr.
Duong, T. Q. +5 more
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