Managing Religion and Religious Changes in Iran: A Socio-Legal Analysis

Managing Religion and Religious Changes in Iran is a concise, highlyerudite, study that focuses on how the Islamic Republic of Iran andthe confessional communities within its society grapple with transformationsin religious identity, beliefs, practices, and social and politicalimplications of change within the setting of a Ithnā-‘Asharī or TwelverShi‘ite theocratic state. Through fifty-seven pages of facts and evaluations,Tous and Richardson insightfully investigate the impact ofsectarian authoritarianism upon the majority Shi‘i Muslim community,and the Sunni and Sufi Muslim, and Baha‘i, Christian, Zoroastrian, andJewish minorities.