Sacred as Secular: Secularization under Theocracy in Iran

✍ Scribed by Abdolmohammad Kazemipur

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 265
• Series: Advancing Studies in Religion; 11
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A revealing study of religious developments in contemporary Iran and the country’s deepening secularization

Debates about Muslim societies have intensified in the last four decades, triggered by the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran and 9/11. At the heart of these assumptions is Muslim exceptionalism: the idea that Muslims think and behave differently from other faith communities. This book debunks this flawed notion by looking at religious trends in Iran since 1979.

✦ 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