“One of my former students, recently tasked with the writing of bio-ethical guidelines for a teaching hospital in southern California, noted that among the Parsis in India the child-woman ratio—a key gauge of fertility—is about 85 per 1,000, whereas the… — Jenny Rose Copy Share Image
“Some scholars maintain that we should not even talk of “Zoroastrianism” in terms of a religion with a systematized collection of beliefs and praxes,… — Jenny Rose Copy Share Image
“It is in the context of this mid-Sasanian era edict reported by Elishe that the myth of Zurvan as hypostatized “Time” is outlined. Another… — Jenny Rose Copy Share Image
“The coins and inscriptions of the Kushan king Kanishka (r. c. 127–151 CE) use Bactrian, a Middle Iranian language that was written in Greek… — Jenny Rose Copy Share Image
“Iranian Zoroastrian immigrants who seek asylum in India under the aegis of the BPP must produce an identity card issued by a local anjuman… — Jenny Rose Copy Share Image
“The notion that the term “Zoroastrian” refers to religious conviction, rather than lineage and birth, is reflected in a resolution passed by the North… — Jenny Rose Copy Share Image
“Those who describe themselves as traditionalist may outnumber other groups, but they espouse more than one normative Zoroastrian theology. The theological spectrum is most… — Jenny Rose Copy Share Image
“For centuries, the ancient Zoroastrian method of disposal of the dead has been a source of curiosity among outsiders: from Herodotus and Strabo in… — Jenny Rose Copy Share Image
“This is evidenced by the discovery of many ossuaries, or “bone-holders,” dating from the fifth- to the eighth-centuries CE. These held the collected sun-dried… — Jenny Rose Copy Share Image
“The name Assara Mazaash was found in an early first millennium ritual text from the library of the neo-Assyrian king Assurbanipal (r. 669–c. 630… — Jenny Rose Copy Share Image
“The term “Neo-traditionalist” is sometimes now applied by outside academics to those Parsis/Iranis who adopt a theological understanding of Zoroastrianism informed by western scholarship,… — Jenny Rose Copy Share Image
“These were all composed in a language known as Old Avestan, which is similar in syntax, meter, and vocabulary to the Old Indic of… — Jenny Rose Copy Share Image
“The Zoroastrian religion addresses the problem of the source of evil partly through the notion of ethical dualism, which operates at the level of… — Jenny Rose Copy Share Image
