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The Antiquity of the Avesta [PDF]

open access: yes, 1905
Paper read before the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, read 26th June 1896. Dr.
Duong, T. Q.   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Negotiating the salientization of identity: Hindu? Indian? American?

open access: yesNew Directions for Higher Education, Volume 2024, Issue 206, Page 15-26, Summer 2024.
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
wiley   +1 more source

A comprehensive review of HVS‐I mitochondrial DNA variation of 19 Iranian populations

open access: yesAnnals of Human Genetics, Volume 88, Issue 3, Page 259-277, May 2024.
Abstract Iran is located along the Central Asian corridor, a natural artery that has served as a cross‐continental route since the first anatomically modern human populations migrated out of Africa. We compiled and reanalyzed the HVS‐I (hypervariable segment‐I) of 3840 mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences from 19 Iranian populations and from 26 groups ...
Motahareh Amjadi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Iranian classical dance as a subject for empirical research: An elusive genre

open access: yesAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Volume 1533, Issue 1, Page 51-72, March 2024.
Iranian classical dance is a rich resource for academic research, both for humanities scholarship and for the empirical disciplines (e.g., empirical aesthetics, experimental psychology, affective neuroscience). To support such research, this paper (a) describes the aesthetics, characteristics, and history of Iranian classical dance; (b) outlines issues
Julia F. Christensen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impersonal Modal Verbs in Middle Persian Zoroastrian [PDF]

open access: yesزبان پژوهی
Modality is of fundamental importance in studying the structure of all languages worldwide. Providing a comprehensive definition of this notion is difficult. In general, modality expresses the speaker's point of view towards the statement in the sentence.
Narjes Sabouri, Belghis Rovshan
doaj   +1 more source

La enseñanza del derecho en los sistemas legales islámico, judío y zoroástrico [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Analiza a la luz de la enseñanza del derecho las semejanzas y diferencias de los sistemas jurídicos islámico, judío y zoroástrico. El estudio permite así contemplar las relaciones y desencuentros que se dan entre estas tradiciones jurídicas orientales ...
Jany, János
core   +3 more sources

From Manichaeism to Zoroastrianism: On the History of the Teaching of the ‘Two Principles’

open access: yesEntangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2020
The essential feature in the religious history of Pre-Islamic Iran is its dualistic worldview.  It marks all stages of Zoroastrianism and also Manichaeism, in which dualism can be regarded as the most important Zoroastrian piece of inheritance.
Götz König
doaj   +1 more source

Validation of the Retirement Resources Inventory in Persian: Assessing Psychometric Properties among Iranian Retirees

open access: yesCurrent Gerontology and Geriatrics Research, Volume 2024, Issue 1, 2024.
Introduction. Retirement resources are considered one of the key determinants of well‐being and coping with the challenging situations of retirement courses. Therefore, due to the lack of a valid questionnaire for research and practice at the national level as well as international comparisons, this study was conducted to translate the original ...
Elaheh Shoushtari-Moghaddam   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Equality\u27s Future: An Introduction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
We stand at an extraordinary moment: never before have so many powerful men wished to be women. For the first time in history, a massive number of male and female voters--18 million in fact--cast their ballots to nominate a woman, Senator Hillary Clinton,
Nourse, Victoria
core   +1 more source

Renhed og urenhed i zarathustrismen

open access: yesReligionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 1997
This paper deals with the relation between the pure and the impure in the late Avestan text Vendīdād. It is shown how, in this religion, there is an almost exact correlation between the cosmic dualism between the good creation of Ahura Mazdā and the ...
Erik Reenberg Sand
doaj   +1 more source

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