Reversion, Revival, Resistance
Framing Iranian Neo-Zoroastrian Religiosities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13099759 |
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| Authors | Benedikt Römer (0009-0006-4877-3688, Universität der Bundeswehr München, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2024-06-03 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Entangled Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2363-6696 • E-ISSN: 2363-6696 |
| Publisher | CERES / KHK Bochum (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.46586/er.15.2024.11525 |
| OpenAlex | W4399292903 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
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. At the same time, a growing interest in religious conversion to Zoroastrianism can be observed among Kurds, Tajiks, Iranians, and other populations. This article analyses the autobiographical account of two Muslim-born Iranian converts to Neo-Zoroastrianism and discusses how such conversions can be adequately framed. It criticises previous works on Neo-Zoroastrians for framing its religious practice as “unauthentic.” As Zoroastrian religiosities transform, especially among urban Tehran Zoroastrians, one can observe a certain convergence of reformed ethic Zoroastrian and Neo-Zoroastrian religious discourses. Taking this trend into account, Iranian Neo-Zoroastrianism can be framed as a movement for religious revival and reform as well as a vehicle of resistance against the state-promoted Shi’ite Islam of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Biology · Resistance (ecology · Reversion · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Genetics
A Persian stronghold of Zoroastrianism
The Shah’s Imperial Celebrations of 1971
“Conversion” to Islam and the Construction of a Pious Self
Spiritual Elite Communities in the Contemporary Middle East
The “Original” Kurdish Religion? Kurdish Nationalism and the False Conflation of the Yezidi and Zoroastrian Traditions
Ethno-Religious Communities
Zoroaster was a Kurd!”
The appropriation of a religion
Voices from Zoroastrian Iran
Persian nationalism and the campaign for language purification
The construction of collective identity
The Zoroastrians of Iran
Survey Zoroastrians
| Highly cited | No |
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