At first glance, it may be difficult to see a relationship between Haitian Vodou and Mormonism.1 How could Mormonism, which established upheld racist policies doctrines, associated with religion born out of Black power?2 Connections however, are worth investigating because thousands people living in Haiti have been converting Mormonism since the official opening an LDS mission 1983.3 This artic...

Avestan’ is the name of the ritual language of Zoroastrianism, which was the state religion of the Iranian empire in Achaemenid, Arsacid and Sasanid times, covering a time span of more than 1200 years. It is named after the ‘Avesta’, i.e., the collection of holy scriptures that form the basis of the religion which was allegedly founded by Zarathushtra, also known as Zoroaster, by about the begi...