![]() ![]() ![]() But there are also significant Zoroastrian communities to be found elsewhere, such as in the USA, Britain and Canada, where western cultural contexts have shaped the religion in intriguing ways and directions. Beyond Iran, the Zoroastrian diaspora is significant especially in India, where the Gujurati-speaking community of exiles from post-Sasanian Iran call themselves 'Parsis'. In present-day Iran significant communities of Zoroastrians (who take their name from the founder of the faith, the remarkable religious reformer Zoroaster, or-in the old Avestan language-Zarathustra) still practise the rituals and teach the moral precepts that once undergirded the officially state-sanctioned faith of the mighty Sasanian empire. |a "Zoroastrianism is one of the world's great ancient religions. |a Electronic access restricted to Villanova University patrons. |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-290) and index. and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, ![]()
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