“…If 8 percent of this population defines their religious identity as Zoroastrian, that amounts to almost 4 million people. That is more than hundredfold the number of Zoroastrians recorded by scholarship on contemporary Iranian Zoroastrianism (Foltz 2011;Fozi, 2014Fozi, , 2022Green 2000;Kestenberg Amighi 2016;Stausberg, 2012Stausberg, , 2015Stewart, 2016Stewart, , 2018Stewart, , 2020; also compare with Eberhard, Simons, and Fennig 2021). We dub this numerical inflation as recorded by GAMAAN "Survey Zoroastrianism."…”