Word: zoroastrianism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first-years. The Ministry encourages students to explore some of the 36 groups that it currently recognizes. Among them are a multiplicity of Christian organizations, Hillel for Jewish worship, the Baha'i Association, the Buddhist Community, a Humanist Chaplaincy, the religious Society of Friends, as well as Hindu and Zoroastrian associations...
Sidhwa, however, does manage to avoid falling into one-dimensional stereotypes with the character of Feroza. Feroza is the `new' immigrant: female, young and Zoroastrian. Feroza discovers love and her sexuality at the University of Colorado, moving in with David Press, the Jewish student who sold her his Chevette. When she intimates the seriousness of her relationship to her parents, her mother is shuttled off to Denver to rescue her from marrying a `non'; if Feroza married her beau, not only would David not be able to convert, but Feroza could no longer remain a Parsi. Variations on Feroza...
Russell has published a book on Zoroastrian elements in Armenian and well over 100 articles in both scholarly and more popular venues, Skjaervo said...
Cyrus R. Mehta, an adjunct associate professor of biostatistics who is the United Ministry representative for the Hindu and Zoroastrian religions, agrees that religious interest at Harvard seems healthy...
Such a Long Journey follows the daily life of one Gustad Noble, a decent, good-natured Zoroastrian living in Bombay during the early 1970s. At home, he is caught up in the feuds and conspiracies of apartment buildings everywhere. At work, he enjoys the rowdy camaraderie of his Zoroastrian friends, singing Roamin' in the Gloamin' in the bank canteen and entertaining one another with ribald tales...