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Jewish Identities in Iran: Resistance and Conversion to Islam and the Baha'i Faith (Library of Modern Religion) - Hardcover
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For minority faith groups living in nineteenth-century Iran, religious conversion to Islam -- both voluntary and forced -- was the primary means of social integration and assimilation. However, why was it that some Persian Jews instead embraced the emergent Baha'i Faith, which was subject to harsher persecution that Judaism? Mehrdad Amanat explores the conversion experiences of Jewish families during this time, and examines the fluid, multiple religious identities that many converts adopted. The religious fluidity exemplified in the widespread voluntary conversion of Iranian Jews to Baha'ism presents an alternative to the rejectionist view of religion that regards millennia of religious experience as inherently coercive, oppressive, rigidly dogmatic and a consistently divisive social force.
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Mehrdad Amanat holds a PhD in History from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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- PublisherI.B.Tauris
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 184511891X
- ISBN 13 9781845118914
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages256
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