Religion, Culture and Politics in Iran
Religion, Culture and Politics in Iran

Author: Joanna de Groot

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2000-08-01

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 0857716298

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This book offers a new interpretation to the social history of religion in Iran from the 1870s to the 1970s. It aims to situate the 'revolutionary' upheavals of 1977-82 in an extensive narrative context of historical developments over the preceding century, and to relate the 'religious' elements in that history to other social and cultural issues. In the author's analysis, Iran's revolution was complex, and contingent on a range of factors rather than a simple or inevitable outcome of the nature of the Iranian state or the nature of religion in Iran. The focus of the argument is on the human responses of Iranians to their experiences and problems in all their diversity and on the rich variety and complexity of relationships between religion and other aspects of life, thought and culture in the daily life of Iranians.

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Berkeley, J. Berkeley, 1st baron. Memoirs of Sir John Berkeley. 1699. Huntington, R. Sundry reasons, inducing Major Robert Huntingdon to lay down his commission. 1648. Fairfax, T. Fairfax, 3d baron. Short memorials of Thomas lord Fairfax. 1699. Hobbes, T. Behemoth: the history of the causes of the civil wars of England. 1679. Remarks on some particular passages in the preceding tract of Mr. Hobbes, which appear to the present editor to contain erroneous opinions. Fell, J., bp. of Oxford. The interest of England stated. 1659. Price, J. The mystery and method of His Majesty's happy restauration. 1680. Milton, J. Reflections on the civil war in England, between King Charles the First and the Long Parliament

Author: Francis Maseres

Publisher:

Published: 1815

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13:

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Saving the Forsaken
Saving the Forsaken

Author: Pearl M. Oliner

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2008-10-01

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0300130406

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Does religion encourage altruism on behalf of those who do not belong? Are the very religious more likely to be altruistic toward outsiders than those who are less religious? In this book Pearl M. Oliner examines data on Christian rescuers and nonrescuers of Jews during the Holocaust to shed light on these important questions. Drawing on interviews with more than five hundred Christians—Protestant and Catholic, very religious, irreligious, and moderately religious rescuers and nonrescuers living in Nazi-occupied Europe, Oliner offers a sociological perspective on the values and attitudes that distinguished each group. She presents several case studies of rescuers and nonrescuers within each group and then interprets the individual’s behavior as it relates to his or her group. She finds that the value patterns of the religious groups differ significantly from one another, and she is able to highlight those factors that appear to have contributed most toward rescue within each group.