Abdolkarim Soroush, Religious Politics and Democratic Reform.
London :
I.B. Tauris & Company, Limited,
2008.
1 online resource (320 pages)
International library of Iranian studies ;
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Introduction : ideological certainties, past and present -- The Islamic roots of modernity and the modern roots of Islamism -- Legitimizing the postrevolutionary regime : the genesis of the new constitution -- Abdolkarim Soroush : the intellectual voice of the Islamic Republic -- From the reign of terror to let a thousand flowers bloom -- From liberation theology to state ideology : Shari'ati and the emergence of new religious intellectuals -- The silence of the Shari'ah : Abdolkarim Soroush and the theological foundations of political reform -- Islam, democracy, and religious pluralism -- Conclusion : social change and the symbolic universe of religion.
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Islam and Dissent in Postrevolutionary Iran : Abdolkarim Soroush, Religious Politics and Democratic Reform.