- Ritual
- Sedreh Pooshi／Navjote
- Region and community
- イラン系・パールシーなどのゾロアスター教共同体
- Age at the cultural rite
- Age 7 / Age 8 / Age 9 / Age 10 / Age 11 / Age 12 / Age 13 / Age 14 / Age 15
- Transition conditions
- Reaching a recognized age / Religious initiation / Community initiation / New social responsibilities
- Legal age of majority
- Canada18 or 19 years, by province or territoryCanada · Calendar unspecified · 18: Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, Saskatchewan and Prince Edward Island. 19: British Columbia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon. · Law and supporting sources
- Iran, Islamic Republic ofLegal age of maturity: 15 lunar years for boys and 9 lunar years for girls; independent control of property requires proof of legal capacity.Iran, Islamic Republic of · Lunar · Civil Code Article 1210 distinguishes maturity from capacity to manage property. · Law and supporting sources 1 · Law and supporting sources 2
About the rite
Sedreh Pooshi, the name commonly used among Iranian Zoroastrians, and Navjote, used especially among Parsis, initiate a child into personal responsibility for the faith. Preparation includes the nahn, a cleansing bath accompanied by a priest’s prayers. During the ceremony, the initiate and priest recite prayers in Avestan, and the child is invested with the sacred shirt, sudreh, and cord, kusti, to be worn throughout life.
Older explanations connect initiation with an age of majority around fifteen. Modern practice usually occurs between about seven and fifteen, with differences between communities. The change is therefore religious rather than legal adulthood: the initiate chooses to live as a Zoroastrian and assumes the duties expressed through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds. Group ceremonies were documented in Vancouver and Tehran in 2003.
