Word: religion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unsigned List. Understandably, Howard was anxious to get out of the maximum-security ward. After failing to get satisfaction in state courts, in March of last year, Howard filed a petition in the U.S. District Court, claiming that he was being denied freedom of religion. Cunningham and his assistant testified that they could no longer remember whether or not Howard had asked for religious services, but Judge John Butzner Jr. held that he must have "expressed his desire to hold Muslim religious services"-otherwise there would be no rational explanation for the superintendent's order. Even so, the court...
...compound the nightmare, the Red Guards were striking at many of the things that the Chinese have always respected. Buddhist shrines were defaced; schools were ordered closed for six months (to revise curriculums along purely Maoist lines). Respect for womanhood and religion was forcibly forgotten. Into British-controlled Hong Kong came eight victims: exhausted Franciscan nuns, one of whom died after being thrown onto a wheelbarrow and harshly trundled across the border...
...last adherents of a great religion that once enlisted millions of ad herents throughout central Asia,&* the Parsis have traditionally influenced In dia well out of proportion to their numbers. Prosperous, cosmopolitan, literate, they dominate today the business community of Bombay. Industrialist J.R.D. Tata, whose steel mills constitute India's largest privately owned enterprise, is a Parsi; so are General Sam Hormuzji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, one of India's top military leaders, and Zubin Mehta, conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. Parsi girls for the last three years have won the title of Miss India...
According to Parsi tradition, Zoroaster was assassinated at the age of 77 by an unbeliever while worshiping at a fire temple. Within a century after his death, his teachings seem to have been accepted as the state religion by the Persian Emperor Artaxerxes. Although the faith was driven underground after Persia's conquest by Alexander the Great, Zoroastrian ideas circulated widely in the Middle East. Almost certainly the magi who came to Bethlehem to honor the newborn Jesus were Zoroastrians, and many scholars believe that echoes of Zoroastrian theology can be found in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Revived...
Although accustomed to being a hidden remnant of the true faith, Parsis today are seriously worried that their ancient religion may die out. Traditionally opposed to proselytizing, the Parsis still excommunicate a woman who marries outside the sect, refuse to accept her children into the faith. Not only is intermarriage more common today, but younger Parsis are growing indifferent to the elaborate rituals and obscure doctrines of the faith. Relatively few Parsis can even read the three extant volumes containing Zoroaster's teachings, which are written in an ancient Persian dialect. Although proud of their history, many Parsis increasingly...