Sacred as secular : secularization under theocracy in Iran /
"Debates about Islam and Muslim societies have intensified in the last four decades, triggered by the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran and, later, by the events of 9/11. Too often present in these debates are wrongheaded assumptions about the attachment of Muslims to their religion and the impos...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
2022.
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| Series: | Advancing studies in religion ;
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Part One Tectonic Shift
- 1 Deconstructing Muslim Exceptionalism
- 2 Rethinking Secularity and Causation
- 3 History of Islam in Iran
- Part Two L'État c'est nous: From Democracy to Theocracy to Autocracy
- 4 Crossing the Trench
- 5 Secularizing the State
- Part Three Backlash: Streets, Young People, Women, and Demography
- 6 Secularization on the Streets
- 7 Religiosity among Young People
- 8 Women
- Part Four Early Warnings and Aftershocks in Philosophy and Religion
- 9 A Century of Philosophical Battles
- 10 Everyday Theology
- Conclusion Putting It Together a New Way?
- Appendix A Report on Sunni Militant Organizations' Conversion to Shi'ism
- Appendix B Aspects of Religiosity and the 1974/2000 Survey Questions Used to Measure Them
- Notes
- References
- Index
