Managing Religion and Religious Changes in Iran: A Socio-Legal Analysis (By Sajjad Adeliyan Tous and James T. Richardson)
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Managing Religion and Religious Changes in Iran is a concise, highly
erudite, study that focuses on how the Islamic Republic of Iran and
the confessional communities within its society grapple with transformations
in religious identity, beliefs, practices, and social and political
implications of change within the setting of a Ithnā-‘Asharī or Twelver
Shi‘ite theocratic state. Through fifty-seven pages of facts and evaluations,
Tous and Richardson insightfully investigate the impact of
sectarian authoritarianism upon the majority Shi‘i Muslim community,
and the Sunni and Sufi Muslim, and Baha‘i, Christian, Zoroastrian, and
Jewish minorities.

