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This text is a compilation of interviews with modern Parsis, discussing their religious beliefs and practices. The text covers a variety of topics, including the history of Zoroastrianism, the current state of the religion, and the different religious schools of thought among Parsis. While the number of Zoroastrians has decreased in recent centuries, the religion is still practiced in Iran and among the Parsis of India.
This text describes the realities of modern Parsi religion through 30 interviews in which urban Parsis belonging to different social milieus and religious schools of thought discuss various aspects of their religious lives. Zoroastrianism, the faith founded by the Iranian prophet Zarathustra, originated around 1000BCE and is widely regarded as the world's first revealed religion. Although the number of its followers declined dramatically in the centuries after the 7th century Islamic conquest of Iran, Zoroastrians survive in Iran to the present day. The other major Zoroastrian community are the Parsis of India, descendants of Zoroastrians who fled Muslim dominion.
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