Minority Status: cultural/religious identity and relations with the majority religion
Channel: SOAS University of London
Date: 2013-11-28

Session 5 -- Minority Status: cultural/religious identity and relations with the majority religion

This was part of the conference "Looking Back: Zoroastrian Identity Formation through Recourse to the Past" (http://goo.gl/rB6usu) which was held at SOAS, University of London on 11-12 October 2013 to coincide with the exhibition "The Everlasting Flame: Zoroastrianism in History and Imagination" which was held at the Brunei Gallery SOAS (http://www.soas.ac.uk/gallery/everlastingflame/).

If you are interested in studying Zoroastrianism or other world religions at SOAS you can find out more at http://www.soas.ac.uk/religions/

Details of the session:

Khojeste Mistree (Zoroastrian Studies, Mumbai): Collision, Conflict and Accommodation -- A Question of Survival and the Preservation of the Parsi Zoroastrian Identity

Dan Sheffield (Princeton University): Magian Mystics? Azar Kayvan and his Followers between Persianate Zoroastrianism and Imami Shi'ism

Jenny Rose (Claremont Graduate University): Riding the (Revolutionary) Waves between Two Worlds: Parsi involvement in the transition from Old to New