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Intentional communities

"Over the centuries, Zoroastrians in Iran have shaped societies that are now known as ‘intentional communities.’ In these communities they try to live with an alternative lifestyle that is different from the dominant culture and only those who accept this lifestyle and its principles can join this community,” explained Radman Khorshidian (pictured) in his paper presented on June 2, 2018 at the 11th World Zoroastrian Congress in Perth. In his thesis for the second level Master of Social Foresight at the University of Trento in Italy he explored "Intentional Communities Network (ICN) and future: a complex adaptive systems (CAS) analysis.” As......



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Nothing concrete happened. The Perth gathering was simply a merry get together with some prizes distributed and speeches made without delving on the core issues. Core issues facing the community threatening its very existence such as causes of dwindling population, late marriages, inter caste marriages,properties of the community being encroached and in many cases taken over by non Zoroastrians,children of inter caste marriages and their navjote, non Zoroastrian spouses right to follow Zoroastrian, difference between being a Parsi and a Zoroastrian,connectivity with the Zoroastrians of Kurdistan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan and other places, very high rates of divorce and estrangement, increasing numbers of homosexuals and how this has to be dealt with and a host of other issues were not discussed. It would be worthwhile to have statistics on some these core issues to know in which direction the community is headed in India, Iran, USA and other places.
- Shapour B Badri
- 15-Jul-2018