Naser Ghobadzadeh

Religious Secularity

A Theological Challenge to the Islamic State

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Produktbeschreibung

Using Iran as a case study, Ghobadzadeh investigates the paradoxes of the Islamic state ideal. He develops the seemingly oxymoronic term "religious secularity" and uses it to describe the Islamic quest for a democratic secular state.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780199391172
• ISBN-10: 0199391173
• Artikelnr.: 47867449

Autorenporträt

Naser Ghobadzadeh is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Justice, the Australian Catholic University (ACU). Researching the intersection of religion and politics, his interests lie in the study of Islamic political theology, secularism, state-religion-society relations, and Middle East and Iranian politics.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: Shiite Discourses on Sovereignty
Chapter Two: Seeding Secularity The Rise of a Jurisprudential State
Chapter Three: Religious Rationale for Separation
Chapter Four: Political Construction of Clericalism
Chapter Five: Clerics against Clericalism
Chapter Six: Clerical Hegemony Contradictions and Paradoxes
Conclusion
Bibliography
Notes