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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

Tourism in Iran: central control and indigeneity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Iran has a long history and tradition of accommodating visitors and travellers, as well as having a great number of minority cultures within its borders, reflecting its geographic location astride some of the major trade routes in the Middle East ...
Baum, T.G.   +2 more
core   +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

AGING COEFFICIENT IN DIFFERENT RELIGIOUS GROUPS IN IRAN [PDF]

open access: yesIranian Journal of Public Health, 1998
Aging Coefficient (AC), or aged–child ratio, is the number of individuals aged 65 years and over, divided by the number of individuals aged 0-14, multiplied by 100.
D.D. Farhud   +3 more
doaj   +2 more sources

'Thou glorious kingdome, thou chiefe of empires': Persia in seventeenth-century travel literature [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Bringing together a range of little-considered materials, this article assesses the portrayal of Persia in seventeenth-century travel literature and drama.
Houston, Chloe
core   +1 more source

ИРАНДАҒЫ НАУРЫЗДЫҢ ТОЙЛАНУЫ МЕН ӘДЕТ-ҒҰРЫПТАРЫ

open access: yesӘл-Фараби Атындағы Қазақ Ұлттық Университеті хабаршы шығыстану сериясы, 2016
Данная статья характеризует отдельные детали при праздновании наурыза в Иране. В этой статье затраги- ваются некоторые особенности обычаев и традиций иранского нового года.
Е. Қ. Қасабекова
doaj  

An analysis of the place of Zoroastrian tourist attractions in developing the Iran’s tourist industry

open access: yesAlmatourism
This research aims to analyze the place of Zoroastrian tourist attractions in developing the Iran's tourist industry. For this purpose, indicators were extracted by using a library method, mix method and consult with experts.
Maysam Shafiee RoodPoshti   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Oral character of middle Persian literature : new perspective [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
From the very beginning oral transmission of texts played a significant role in the Iranian world. It became a main topic of several works by Bailey (1943), Boyce (1957, 1968), de Menasce (1973), Skjærvø (1384hš), Smurzyński (2006) and Tafazzoli ...
Kłagisz, Mateusz
core  

THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN NESTORIANS AND MONOPHYSITES: BARSAUMA’S ACTIVITY [PDF]

open access: yesBanber Arevelagitut'yan Instituti, 2019
Nestorianism antagonized the official Byzantine church, spreading out from Mesopotamia. It was the creed of the merchants, the class who sought independency and confronted Zoroastrianism in Iran.
HOVHANNES KHORIKYAN
doaj  

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