women in Iraqi Kurdistan are risking their lives to convert to an ancient religion that preaches gender equality. Corinne Redfern spends a week with the Zoroastrians Some days, when Duya Ahmed ...

This irreverent, animated short film concludes the 'A to Z of Religion and Beliefs' series by taking a look at some lesser known faiths. In particular, Zoroastrianism, Jainism and the Baha’i ...

The Avesta is the religious book of the Zoroastrian religion. Scholars debate the dates and geography of Zoroaster’s life, but his religion was practiced at the time of the earliest historically ...

The Iranian government continues to persecute religious minorities, including groups supposedly given special recognition by the country’s constitution: Jews, Christians, and Zoroastrians.

The resulting ethnographic portrait is Parsis: The Zoroastrians of India-- A Photographic Journey. Followers of the ancient Zoroastrian religion, Parsis migrated to India from what is now Iran over a ...

Opposing Aspects of Female Power in Mythological Reflexes of Ancient Goddesses,” Iran and the Caucasus 20 (2016): 205-214 “Iranian Goddesses,” in Richard Foltz, Religions of Iran: From Prehistory to ...

It was the oldest of the four, the first of all the text-based religions, and it profoundly influenced the other three. There are still significant Zoroastrian communities all over the world ...

Mumbai: The head of Iran's Zoroastrian community, Dr. Mehraban Puladi, is on a religious and cultural tour in India. On Monday, he visited the three-century-old Bhikha Behram well at Churchgate ...

It was the oldest of the four, the first of all the text-based religions, and it profoundly influenced the other three. There are still significant Zoroastrian communities all over the world ...