Identities in Crisis in Iran (eBook, PDF)

Politics, Culture, and Religion
Redaktion: Cohen, Ronen A.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Identities in Crisis in Iran aims at finding answers to the questions about the puzzling character of the Iranian identity. The contributors acknowledge that identity, especially when it is faced with fundamental tensions as in the case of Iran, is a phenomenon that is constantly developing via factors involving the private self and common social components. This book addresses the tension many Iranian people face that lie between the Persian culture and the Shi'a religion, women versus men, and culture versus traditions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216323280
• Artikelnr.: 74842387

Autorenporträt

Ronen A. Cohen is assistant professor and chair of the Department of Middle Eastern Studies and Political Science at Ariel University in Israel. He has published numerous books including: The Upheavals in the Middle East: The Theory and Practice of a Revolution (Lexington Books, 2014) and The Hojjatiyeh Society in Iran: Ideology and Practice from the 1950s to the Present.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction, Ronen A. Cohen
Section One: Historical and Current Perspectives on Persian, Islamic, and
Contested Religious Identities
Chapter One: The Unending Battle between the Persian and Islamic Identities
of Iran, Harold Rhode
Chapter Two: National Identity or Political Legitimacy: The Reconstruction
of the City of Bam, Ladan Zarabadi
Section Two: An Islamic-National Identity and Nuclear Program
Chapter Three: The Islamic Identity Project: Between Coercion and
Voluntarism, Ofira Seliktar
Chapter Four: Iran's National Identity and the Nuclear Program: A Rational
Choice Theory Analysis, Farhad Rezaei
Chapter Five: Overcoming "the -isms": Iranian's Role in the Modern World,
from the Perspective of Mahmud Ahmadi-nezhad, Moshe-hay S. Hagigat
Section Three: Sexuality, Beauty, and Social Networking-Between the
Private, Self, and the Public Sphere
Chapter Six: The Identity Designers of the Self in Sexuality, Beauty, and
Plastic Surgery in Iran, Ronen A. Cohen
Chapter Seven: Iranians against the "Other": Iranian Identity in the Social
Media Era, Raz Zimmt
Conclusions
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index