Religion, Culture and Politics in Iran From the Qajars to Khomeini

by De Groot, Joanna

• ISBN13: 9781860645716
• ISBN10: 1860645712
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-10-15
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris

Summary

This is a new and original interpretation of the social history of religion in Iran from the 1870s to the 1970s. Drawing together religion and other social and cultural issues, it places the revolutionary upheavals of 1977-82 in the context of historical developments over the preceding century.

Author Biography

Joanna de Groot lectures in history and is a member of the Centre for Women’s Studies at the University of York. She has published extensively on gender and women’s history.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vi
Introduction: making stories about Iran	p. 1
The 'religious' and the 'social'	p. 11
A story of cultures and communities	p. 13
Narratives of nineteenth-century communities and hierarchies	p. 14
Narratives of transition, 1890s to 1940s	p. 32
Identities and communities' 1950s to 1970s	p. 40
A story of material relationships	p. 61
A story of distinctive institutions and vested interests	p. 82
The 'religious' and the 'political'	p. 113
The life, death and afterlife of political issues	p. 116
Encountering change: a story of reform and resistance	p. 116
A story of doulat and mellat: issues of state and people	p. 127
A story of nation and nationalism: the politics of identity, solidarity and difference	p. 144
A story of language, symbol and discourse	p. 167
A story of movements and struggles: convergence, conflict and cohabitation	p. 201
Concluding some stories (and starting others)	p. 253
Notes	p. 259
Bibliography	p. 283
Index	p. 297
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