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020			_a978-1-84511-891-4
040			_cNational Baha'i Reference Library
245	1	0	_aJewish Identities in Iran: Resistance and Conversion to Islam and the Baha'i Faith
260			_aLondon, New YOrk _bI.B.Tauris _c2011
300			_a279 p.
440			_91201 _aLibrary of Modern Religion _v9
505			_aFor 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		_aFor 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	_aNineteenth Century _vBaha'i Faith _zIran _9490
650		0	_9491 _aJudaism _vBaha'i Faith
700			_aMehrdad Amanat _91202
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