:Abdolkarim Soroush, Religious Politics and Democratic Reform
First Statement of Responsibility
/ Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi
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London ; New York
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: I.B. Tauris ;New York :In the United States of America and Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan
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, 2008.
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viii, 311 p.
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(International Library of Iranian Studies
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; 16)
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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.