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Power, Religion, and the Effects of Publicness in 20th-Century Shiraz

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Religion, Social Practice, and Contested Hegemonies

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Abstract

The photos of people marching in the streets during the Iranian revolution of 1979 and the televised spectacle of masses of Iranians grieving at the funeral of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989 remain in Western media central images to any discussion about the political relevance of Islam, especially in relation to its mass character. The compact, indistinct character of the mass and its emotional behavior is often framed as an implicit or explicit example of the “primordial” and “archaic” link between Islam and the population of Iran, projecting the country into a space of alterity where religion is the explanatory trope deployed for all occasions.

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  1. Setrag Manoukian
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut), Essen, Germany

    Armando Salvatore (Senior Research Fellow) (Senior Research Fellow)

  2. Institute of Social Science, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

    Armando Salvatore (Senior Research Fellow) (Senior Research Fellow)

  3. University of California, Irvine, USA

    Mark LeVine (Associate Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, Culture, and Islamic Studies) (Associate Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, Culture, and Islamic Studies)

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Manoukian, S. (2005). Power, Religion, and the Effects of Publicness in 20th-Century Shiraz. In: Salvatore, A., LeVine, M. (eds) Religion, Social Practice, and Contested Hegemonies. Culture and Religion in International Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403979247_3

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