:Abdolkarim Soroush, religious politics and democratic reform
First Statement of Responsibility
/ Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi
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Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
London
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: I.B. Tauris
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2008.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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viii, 311 p.
SERIES
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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.