Modernity: the use of the past in the balance of traditional Zoroastrian culture and modernity
Channel: SOAS University of London
Date: 28/11/2013

Session 6: Modernity: the use of the past in the balance of traditional Zoroastrian culture and modernity

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:

Shernaz Cama (University of Delhi): Sacred Armour; Relevance in a changing world

Richard Foltz (Concordia University): Zoroastrian Symbolism and Tajik Nation-building