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Informationen zum Autor Joanna de Groot is a Lecturer in History Studies at the University of York where she is also a member of the Centre for Women's Studies. She has published extensively on gender and women's history. Klappentext A new and original interpretation of the social history of religion in Iran from the 1870s to the 1970s. Drawing together religion and other social and cultural issues! it places the revolutionary upheavals of 1977-82 in the context of historical developments over the preceding century. De Groot argues that Iran's revolution was not the inevitable outcome of the nature of the Iranian state or of religion in Iran but was much more complex and resulted from a wider range of factors than is traditionally believed. She focuses on the human responses of Iranians to their experiences and on the rich variety and complexity of the relationship between religion and other aspects of society! thought and culture in their daily life. Stimulating and engaging! "Religion! Culture and Politics in ""Iran" makes an important contribution to the study of Iranian society. Zusammenfassung A study of Kurdish identity and ethnicity that sets out the historic struggle of the Kurds in Turkey, Iran and Iraq, and shows that even without an independent Kurdish state (Kurdistan) measures of Kurish self-government are possible, based on a broad understanding of what Kurdish nationhood means.
