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Ethnic Religious Minorities in Iran

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Editors:
  1. S. Behnaz Hosseini

    1. Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, London, UK

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  • Provides insights into minorities religious beliefs and their situation in Iran
  • Explores strategies devised to avoid persecution and maintain distinctive cultural and religious beliefs
  • Offers an inter-disciplinary approach to the culture and religious beliefs of the people

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxx
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  2. Religious and Ethnic Minorities in Iran: An Introduction

    • Manfred Hutter
    Pages 1-12

  3. Iranian Constitution Under Pro-Center Dogmatic Authoritarianism and Pro-Persian Cosmopolitanism, and Its Impacts on Ethno-sectarian and Ethno-linguistic Minorities

    • Muhammad Asim
    Pages 13-44

  4. Sectarianism and National Cohesion Sunni Political Activism in Iran

    • James Barry
    Pages 45-64

  5. The Role of Asheqs in Maintaining and Promoting the Culture of Khorasan’s Kurds

    • Goli Shadkam
    Pages 65-93

  6. Porkhani and Ishani: Women Healers in the Turkmen Community in Iran

    • Manijeh Maghsudi
    Pages 95-108

  7. Iranian Jews’ Tendency to Religious Visibility and Adapted Coexistence

    • Ali Hasannia, Zahra Fazeli, Mohammad Reza Fazeli
    Pages 109-145

  8. Demographic Aspects of Iranian Immigrants’ Integration in Israel

    • Ashkan Safaei Hakimi
    Pages 147-167

  9. An Islamized Mandaeism: Examining the Impacts of Shia Muslims on the Religionism of the Iranian Mandaeans

    • Iman Amirteimour
    Pages 169-199

  10. The Contemporary Collective Identity of Zoroastrians in Tehran: Between the Strategies of Dichotomization and Complementarization

    • Paulina Niechciał
    Pages 201-227

  11. Sociological Analysis of Social Trust in the Zoroastrian Community in Tehran

    • Seyedeh Hakimeh Hashemi, Seyed Reza Salehi Amiri, Shahla Kazemipour Sabet
    Pages 229-257

  12. Transformation and Appropriation of Religion: A Case of Yārsāni Community in Iran

    • S. Behnaz Hosseini
    Pages 259-276
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About this book

This book explores the experiences of the ethnic and religious minorities of Iran, such as Jews, Yarsani, Christian, Sabean Mandaean, Bahai, Zoroastrian, Baluch, Kurd, and others and provides a historical overview of their position in society before and after the 1979 Islamic revolution and highlights their contribution to the country's history, diversity, and development. It also focuses on the historical, sociopolitical, and economic factors that affected the minorities' development during the last century. Author Behnaz Hosseini has shaped this book with authentic material and has assembled the experiences and opinions of academics of diverse backgrounds who approach the minorities’ issues in Iran in a constructive and ingenious way: from debating their efforts to preserve their identity and cultural heritage and ensure their survival to discussing their relations with the majority and other minorities, the role of religion in everyday life, and their contribution to the rich cultural history of Iran.

Reviews

“This collected volume is an attempt to create an overview of Iran’s main religious and ethno-religious minorities in their relationship to the dominant political discourse. The diversity of the topics, the international and academic backgrounds of the authors as well as their contemporary orientation distinguishes this volume as an original one.” (Behrouz Alikhani, Senior Lecturer, WWU Münster, Institute of Sociology, Germany)

“Iran is often understood as a homogenous nation-state. A closer look at the Iranian society – in Iran and beyond – allows for a better understanding. The volume of Behnaz gives insights into an overlooked aspect of Iranian society, insights not available before. The student of Iran may have heard about nomads, Kurds, Zoroastrians, Armenians, sometimes about Jews or other minorities but never had access to such a specter of information about Iranian minorities. Especially, since most of the contributions are not written by foreign experts but byIranian researchers, this volume will be a milestone for further research on Iranian minorities. The volume edited by Behnaz is an indispensable handbook for researchers.” (Rüdiger Lohlker, Professor at Institute for Oriental Studies, Faculty of Philology and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna, Austria)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, London, UK

    S. Behnaz Hosseini

About the editor

S. Behnaz Hosseini is a visiting research fellow at Centre for Studies in Religion & Society, University of Victoria in Canada as well as minority researcher, project coordinator, and conference organizer at the mobilecultures team affiliated with University of Vienna. She is an Honorary Fellow in the Center for Research on Gender and Women at the University of Wisconsin College. She is also a Middle East media analyst with Persian media. Dr. Hosseini has conducted extensive research on minorities in the Middle East and has worked with the United Nations as an expert consultant on ISIS crimes against religious minorities in Iraq. 

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