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Informationen zum Autor Naser Ghobadzadeh is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Justice, the Australian Catholic University (ACU). He holds a Ph.D. (University of Sydney, 2012) and an M.A. in Political Science (Shahid Beheshti University, Iran, 2001). Naser has authored two books in the Persian language, including A Study of People's Divergence from the Ruling System (2002) and The Caspian Sea: Legal Regime, Neighboring Countries and US Policies (2005). His articles have been published in top-ranked international journals such as Third World Quarterly, Democratization, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Contemporary Politics, Commonwealth & Comparative Politics and Discourse. Klappentext Using Iran as a case study, Ghobadzadeh investigates the paradoxes of the Islamic state ideal. He develops the seemingly oxymoronic term "religious secularity" and uses it to describe the Islamic quest for a democratic secular state. Zusammenfassung Using Iran as a case study, Ghobadzadeh investigates the paradoxes of the Islamic state ideal. He develops the seemingly oxymoronic term "religious secularity" and uses it to describe the Islamic quest for a democratic secular state. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter One: Shiite Discourses on Sovereignty Chapter Two: Seeding Secularity The Rise of a Jurisprudential State Chapter Three: Religious Rationale for Separation Chapter Four: Political Construction of Clericalism Chapter Five: Clerics against Clericalism Chapter Six: Clerical Hegemony Contradictions and Paradoxes Conclusion Bibliography Notes
