Pious passion : the emergence of modern fundamentalism in the United States and Iran / Martin Riesèbrodt ; translated from the German by Don Reneau.

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9780520911420

9780585091419

9780520074644

Title:

Pious passion : the emergence of modern fundamentalism in the United States and Iran / Martin Riesèbrodt ; translated from the German by Don Reneau.

Author:

Riesebrodt, Martin.

Personal Author:

Riesebrodt, Martin.

Uniform Title:

Fundamentalismus als patriarchalische Protestbewegung. English

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1 online resource (x, 262 pages).

Series:

Comparative studies in religion and society ; 6

Contents:

Fundamentalism as a sociological problem -- Protestant fundamentalism in the United States, 1910-1928 -- Shi'ite fundamentalism in Iran, 1961-1979 -- Fundamentalism as radical patriarchalism.

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Subject Term:

Fundamentalism.

Shiites -- Iran.

Islamic fundamentalism.

Islamic fundamentalism -- Iran.

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Publication Date:

1993

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Martin Riesebrodt's unconventional study provides an extraordinary look at religious fundamentalism. Comparing two seemingly disparate movements--in early twentieth-century United States and 1960s and 1970s Iran--he examines why these movements arose and developed. He sees them not simply as protests against "modernity" per se, but as a social and moral community's mobilization against its own marginalization and threats to its way of life. These movements protested against the hallmarks of industrialization and sought to transmit conservative cultural models to the next generation.

Fundamentalists desired a return to an "authentic" social order governed by God's law, one bound by patriarchal structures of authority and morality. Both movements advocated a strict gender dualism and were preoccupied with controlling the female body, which was viewed as the major threat to public morality.

Author Notes

Riesebrodt Martin :

Martin Riesebrodt is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. Don Reneau is a translator based in Berkeley, California.

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Riesebrodt provides a brilliant second-order investigation of the two most familiar cases of modern fundamentalism. The first is drawn from the American Protestant protest against biblical criticism and evolutionism; its formative phase was 1910-28. The second recapitualtes the Iranian Shi'ite revolt against the moral laxity, anti-clericalism, and foreign collusion of the Pahlavi regime. Its formative phase was 1961-79. From the perspective of historical sociology, the author provides an in-depth comparison of the genesis of each movement. By discounting their temporal and cultural differences, he can trace a structural symmetry that is at once elegant and complex. He attributes a very large role to religion in facilitating social mobilization: fundamentalist leaders succeeded largely because they crystalized, and then redirected, patriarchal protest not merely against the tenets of scriptural or ecclesisastical liberalism but also against modern notions of family, labor, and education. Despite sometimes technical language, the translation from the German is fluent, at once lucid and lapidary, making a pivotal study accessible and therefore highly recommended for all advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty. B. B. Lawrence; Duke University

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