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02266nam a2200217Ia 4500 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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OSt |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20230309103000.0 |
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180524s2011 CNT 000 0 und d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
978-1-84511-891-4 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Transcribing agency |
National Baha'i Reference Library |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Jewish Identities in Iran: Resistance and Conversion to Islam and the Baha'i Faith |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
London, New YOrk |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
I.B.Tauris |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2011 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
279 p. |
| 440 ## - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE |
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| 9 (RLIN) |
1201 |
| Title |
Library of Modern Religion |
| Volume/sequential designation |
9 |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
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. |
| 520 3# - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
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. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Nineteenth Century |
| Form subdivision |
Baha'i Faith |
| Geographic subdivision |
Iran |
| 9 (RLIN) |
490 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| 9 (RLIN) |
491 |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Judaism |
| Form subdivision |
Baha'i Faith |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Mehrdad Amanat |
| 9 (RLIN) |
1202 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type |
Printed or electronic book |
