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Identities in Crisis in Iran

Politics, Culture, and Religion
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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.
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
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