fatemeh honarvaran

Some archaeologists claim that Islam is a monopolistic religion, but in ancient Iran, especially the last dynasty of Iran, the Sassanid era, there was freedom and tolerance in the face of opposing religious beliefs. The purpose of this study is to investigate the question: did religious pluralism really exist in Sassanid Iran and, if any, what was their pluralism in that period? The present study is a descriptive-analytical method with interdisciplinary (historical-theological) nature and the research findings show that in the structure of the Sassanid government, especially the clergy in this era due to the domination of Zoroastrian religion and their exclusivism, there not only may be found any case for belief in religious pluralism meant by epistemological or functional pluralism or salvation, but they did not even believe in or adhere to any form of religious behavioral pluralism, and they imposed various social and religious strictures on the followers of other religions.

The notion of "saviorism" and "belief in a universal savior" is prevalent among peoples and nations with different religions and cultures. The vision that religions offer about salvation in the end times will play an important role in the appearance of the status of religions and the acceptance of that religion by the people. Non-Abrahamic religions, like the Abrahamic religions, have the prospect of salvation in the end times. What is considered as an issue in this study is "understanding and explaining the perspective of apocalyptic saviorism in non-Abrahamic religions." Therefore, this descriptive-analytical study aims to explain the perspective of the dimensions of salvation in the saviorism approach, seeks to explain the characteristics of the savior and the signs of its appearance and the cycle of salvation in non-Abrahamic religions. According to studies, the vision of a savior in non-Abrahamic religions has unique characteristics that each religion has signs at three levels of before, during and after the advent. In the cycle of appearance, each of the religions has different and distinct approaches that can be designed and studied in the form of two approaches: "linear" and "cyclical".