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Religion, Media and Conversion in Iran

Mediated Christianity in an Islamic Context

By: Sara Afshari

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Religion, Media and Conversion in Iran

Mediated Christianity in an Islamic Context

By: Sara Afshari

Religion, Media and Conversion in Iran studies the reception of Farsi Christian television channels by Muslim audiences in Iran: their motivations in viewing the Christian message, their methods of interpretation and negotiation with different media texts and their process of changing or altering their religion. Rooted in empirical research, it analyses three hundred narratives drawn from the audiences of four Farsi Christian satellite television channels between 2010 and 2015, investigating their conversion to Christianity through that medium. The research examines factors that influenced both their interpretations of, and negotiations with, the religious media message, and their process of changing, adding to or modifying their belief system, including their understanding of religious conversion. Drawing on Reception Theory, the book investigates the negotiations between meaning making and mediation and the process of faith transformation against the background of the sociology of religion and culture in contemporary Iran. By offering a unique insight into the way in which media and religion influence each other, this book is a great resource for any scholar of Religious Studies, Media Studies and Middle East Studies and will also be useful for religious media practitioners.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000853187

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A Political and Economic History of the Jews of Afghanistan

By: Sara Koplik

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A Political and Economic History of the Jews of Afghanistan

By: Sara Koplik

A Political and Economic History of the Jews of Afghanistan by Sara Koplik describes the situation of Jews in that country during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, particularly 1839-1952. It examines the political, economic and social conditions they faced as religious minorities. The work focuses upon harsh governmental economic policies of the 1930s and 1940s spearheaded by 'Abd al-Majid Khan Zabuli which caused the impoverishment and suffering of both the local community and refugees from Soviet Central Asia. The question of Nazi influence in Afghanistan is addressed, with the author arguing that it was mainly limited to the economic sphere. An examination of the appeal of Zionism and the community's immigration to Israel is included.

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300

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BRILL

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9004292381

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9789004292383

The Triumph of Democracy and the Eclipse of the West

By: Ewan Harrison,S. Mitchell,Sara McLaughlin Mitchell

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The Triumph of Democracy and the Eclipse of the West

By: Ewan Harrison,S. Mitchell,Sara McLaughlin Mitchell

This book explores the paradox of the worldwide spread of democracy and capitalism in an era of Western decline. The rest is overtaking the West as Samuel Huntington predicted, but because it is adopting Western institutions. The emerging global order offers unprecedented opportunities for the expansion of peace, prosperity, and freedom. Yet this is not the 'end of history', but the beginning of a post-Western future for the democratic project. The major conflicts of the future will occur between the established democracies of the West and emerging democracies in the developing world as they seek the benefits and recognition associated with membership of the democratic community. This 'clash of democratizations' will define world politics.

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408

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Springer

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1137346868

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9781137346865

Exposed Science

Genes, the Environment, and the Politics of Population Health

By: Sara Shostak

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Genes, the Environment, and the Politics of Population Health

By: Sara Shostak

We rely on environmental health scientists to document the presence of chemicals where we live, work, and play and to provide an empirical basis for public policy. In the last decades of the 20th century, environmental health scientists began to shift their focus deep within the human body, and to the molecular level, in order to investigate gene-environment interactions. In Exposed Science, Sara Shostak analyzes the rise of gene-environment interaction in the environmental health sciences and examines its consequences for how we understand and seek to protect population health. Drawing on in-depth interviews and ethnographic observation, Shostak demonstrates that what we know – and what we don’t know – about the vulnerabilities of our bodies to environmental hazards is profoundly shaped by environmental health scientists’ efforts to address the structural vulnerabilities of their field. She then takes up the political effects of this research, both from the perspective of those who seek to establish genomic technologies as a new basis for environmental regulation, and from the perspective of environmental justice activists, who are concerned that that their efforts to redress the social, political, and economical inequalities that put people at risk of environmental exposure will be undermined by molecular explanations of environmental health and illness. Exposed Science thus offers critically important new ways of understanding and engaging with the emergence of gene-environment interaction as a focal concern of environmental health science, policy-making, and activism.

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Univ of California Press

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0520275187

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9780520275188

Religion, Media and Conversion in Iran

Mediated Christianity in an Islamic Context

By: Sara Afshari

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By: Sara Afshari

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Book's by Sara Afshari

Religion, Media and Conversion in Iran

Religion, Media and Conversion in Iran

A Political and Economic History of the Jews of Afghanistan

A Political and Economic History of the Jews of Afghanistan

The Triumph of Democracy and the Eclipse of the West

The Triumph of Democracy and the Eclipse of the West

Exposed Science

Exposed Science

Religion, Media and Conversion in Iran

Religion, Media and Conversion in Iran

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