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Author : Evelyn and Wallace Shellenberger
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781491709054
Describes the experiences of the authors' four years of living in Iran as part of a student-exchange program, sponsored by Mennonite Central Committee.
Author : Sasan Tavassoli
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857719775
The interface between the current Shi'ite landscape and Christian thinking is of the greatest significance for the shifting political and religious dynamics of the Middle East. Sasan Tavassoli here examines Iranian Shi'ite thinkers' encounters with Christian thought since the Islamic revolution of 1979, and provides insight into the cultural and intellectual climate surrounding Christian-Muslim dialogue in contemporary Iran. The literature on Christianity in Iran reveals a wide range of approaches and attitudes, and Tavassoli demonstrates that traditional polemics are giving way to a more descriptive and subjective understanding of Christian thought. He also studies Muslim-Christian dialogue and research conducted and supported by governmental as well as non-governmental organizations, and offers a close examination, with interviews, of the work of three prominent liberal religious intellectuals - Abdol Karim Soroush, Mostafa Malekian and Mojtahed Shabestari. Placing contemporary Shi'ite thought in the broad historical context of pre- and post-revolution Iran, Tavassoli relates concrete religious, cultural and socio-political realities to the themes and orientations in the latest phase of the Shi'i Islam-Christianity encounter, and offers fresh insight into the dynamism of contemporary Islam and the religious complexities of the Muslim world.
Author : A. Christian Van Gorder
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0739136097
Writing on an often overlooked section of contemporary Persian culture, A. Christian van Gorder provides a comprehensive and readable introduction to the experience of Christians and other non-Muslims in Iran throughout history and into the present day. Van Gorder gives a fascinating account of the history of Christianity in Persia. By debunking the common misconceptions and stereotypes driven by recent political events and the media, he shows the current relationship that the Muslim majority in Iran has developed with people of other faiths. Book jacket.
Author : Ramin Parsa
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781512794748
In From Ashes To Glory, Ramin Parsa, a former devout Muslim describes his supernatural encounter with Jesus Christ that consequently led to his dramatic conversion from Islam to Christianity after he learned that Jesus Christ died for him on the Cross, was buried and rose from the dead on the third day. Ramin describes life under rigid Islamic sharia law in Iran which he once thought was the way to Allah. Until he became a victim of the unjust Islamic law himself which devastated his life. That caused him to investigate Islam more closely which resulted in discovering devastating truth about Islam that caused him to reject and abandon Islam entirely. Leaving Islam was not easy for Ramin because his entire life he endeavored to please Allah through keeping harsh Islamic laws and rituals. Although Ramin left Islam, but he couldnt ignore the fact that there is a God. His hunger for truth sat him on an exciting journey that led him to find the only true and living God whom he never knew but was desperately seeking. In this engaging and thought provoking book, with depth and clarity, Ramin compares Islam vs. Christianity and their respective impacts on the world around us. This book reminds us to take heart because the simple but powerful message of the Gospel is healing and transforming the lives of people everywhere including the Muslim world. In this book you will learn about Ramins story, his dramatic escape from Iran, living as a refugee. You will also learn about the rise and fall of Ancient Persia, the birth of Islam and its dark History, the truth about the Islamic sharia law, Islamic Jihad and the plan of Islam for the West. Redemptive Love Ministry International P.O. Box 2595, LANCASTER, CALIFORNIA 93539 www.raminparsa.org [email protected] Phone:1-805419-0177
Author : Robin Waterfield
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136834615
When it was originally published this book broke new ground in presenting one continuous narrative of the history of Christians in Persia from the second century A.D to the 1970s. The material gathered here was previously only to be found in obscure books, manuscripts and foreign periodicals. Christians in Persia shows the intricate history of the period concerned; the personalities of the rulers and the ruled; the difficult task of the missionaries; their successes and failures and the consequences of their efforts. All this is related to the wider history of the country and to the expansion of Christianity in the East.
Author : Maryam Rostampour,Marziyeh Amirizadeh
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781414382203
Maryam Rostampour and Marziyeh Amirizadeh knew they were putting their lives on the line. Islamic laws in Iran forbade them from sharing their Christian beliefs, but in three years, they’d covertly put New Testaments into the hands of twenty thousand of their countrymen and started two secret house churches. In 2009, they were finally arrested and held in the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran, a place where inmates are routinely tortured and executions are commonplace. In the face of ruthless interrogations, persecution, and a death sentence, Maryam and Marziyeh chose to take the radical—and dangerous—step of sharing their faith inside the very walls of the government stronghold that was meant to silence them. In Captive in Iran, two courageous Iranian women recount how God used their 259 days in Evin Prison to shine His light into one of the world’s darkest places, giving hope to those who had lost everything and showing love to those in despair.
Author : Todd Nettleton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Christian converts from Islam
ISBN : 0882640070
Author : Hormoz Shariat
Publisher : Whitaker House
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781733749053
ONE MILLION MUSLIMS TO CHRIST. In the mid 1980’s, Dr. Shariat together with his wife, prayed, “Lord, use us to save Iran!” His passion for Muslims stems, in part, because of the murder of his brother, Hamraz, who was arrested in Iran at the age of sixteen on a minor political charge. After two years in jail, he was executed by firing squad. God showed Hormoz the best way to respond to this tragedy was to dedicate his life to bring one million Muslims to salvation in Christ. Join Dr. Shariat on a journey out of bondage to Islam to freedom in Christ. Learn what the Bible says about Iran and why Iran is just the beginning of something big, eternal, and of historical proportion that is already happening! God said, “I am going to do a great work in Iran and change that nation forever, and I am giving you the honor to be a part of it.”
Author : Alberto Tiburcio
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474440486
Focused on the work of the renegade missionary 'Ali Quli Jadid al-Islam (d. 1734), this book contributes to ongoing debates on the nature of confessionalism, interreligious encounters, and cultural translation in early modern Muslim empires.
Author : Mark Bradley
Publisher : Monarch Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780857215970
In 1979, there were fewer than 500 known Christians from a Muslim background in Iran. Today there are at least 100,000 believers . Church leaders believe that millions can be added to the church in the next few years ' such is the spiritual hunger that exists. The religious violence that accompanied the reign of President Ahmadinejad drained its perpetrators of political and religious legitimacy, and has opened the door to other faiths. This book sets the rapid church growth in Iran in the context of the deteriorating relationship between Iranians and their national religion. There is a major focus on the Ahmadinejad years, but the author also covers the history of the church before 1979, picking up on the central idea that the spark may have become buried in the ashes but has never been extinguished. The book is careful, proportionate, well-informed and accurate. Throughout the text there will be boxes with stories of faith, persecution, and encouragement.
Author : Reza Safa
Publisher : Charisma Media
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781591859888
Safa, a former Shiite Muslim and a recognized authority on Islamic issues, chronicles what God is doing in the Islamic world, including Iran, where thousands of former faithful Muslims are converting to Christianity.
Author : Mark Bradley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441111142
In this enlightening study Mark Bradley looks at the growing underground church in Iran. Given the hostility of the regime, it is often assumed that Christianity is withering in Iran, but in fact more Iranian Muslims have become Christians in the last 25 years than since the seventh century, when Islam first came to Iran. Beginning with an in-depth look at the historical identity of Iran, religiously, culturally and politically, Bradley shows how this identity makes Iranians inclined towards Christianity. He goes on to look at the impact of the 1979 revolution, an event which has brought war, economic chaos and totalitarianism to Iran, and its implications for Iranian faith. The study concludes with an analysis of church growth since 1979 and an examination of the emerging underground church. This is a fascinating work, guaranteed to improve any reader's knowledge of not only Iranian faith and church growth, but of Iranian culture and history as a whole thanks to the thorough treatment given to the country's background.
Author : Marcin Rzepka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8376431366
The Iranian Revolution, which treated Islam as the main feature of the newly constructed state identity, redefined the social, cultural, and political scenes by putting the so-called 'religious minorities' in the new order. Minorities such as Christians, Zoroastrians, and Jews obtained both rights (granted by the new Constitution) and limitations. Concerning Christians, the constitutional rights were preserved to the 'ethnic' Christians: Armenians and Assyrians only. The task of the book is to present Protestant communities in the time of revolution as well as the reactions and attitudes of both missionaries and Iranians to the revolutionary events. For many missionaries, the revolution led to the end of their missions, obliterating. There are, at least, two different narratives of the revolution among Iranian Protestants and missionaries that originated in very different perspectives on Iranian history. When studying American or British missionaries, we should ask how did the Protestants perceived the revolutionary events. Did they believe that the new regime would secure their presence in the country? The missionary perception of Islam in general and Iran in particular in the context of the revolution seems to be the starting point for studies of Protestantism in Iran. However, the problem with the Protestant churches and communities is much more complex. The missionary impact is seen in the growing indigenous Iranian churches. Of course, the historical development of Protestantism gave birth to different churches with their own concepts of worship, community, and leadership. Three of them are included in this study: Anglican, Presbyterian, and Pentecostal. This book is divided into three chapters. The first depicts the historical spectrum of the presence and activity of the Protestant churches in Iran with a special emphasis on the 1970s, when expatriate British and American communities in Iran inspired church strategies but also influenced the way in which Iranian authorities perceived the Protestant churches during and after the revolution. The second chapter is focused on the years between 1978 and 1981 and analyses the situation of the churches on two levels: internal and external, with special reference to the Iranian hostage crisis. The end of the chapter brings some considerations on 'traveling' memories of the Christians from the time of the revolution focusing on Bishop Hassan Dehqani-Tafti, who proposed theoretical fundaments for re-thinking the Iranian Christian identity. The concept of 'Persian-speaking Christians' appears on the book's pages many times. The third chapter follows the events after 1981 to describe the appearance of exiled Iranian Protestant communities and mechanisms for the adoption and assimilation of revolutionary ideas among the church members. In a way, it returns to the problem of geography underlining the dynamics of spread the Christian message through the Internet and satellite television, making Iranian Christianity really a global phenomenon.
Author : Nasser Lotfi
Publisher : W Publishing Group
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0849902754
Author : Mark William Bradley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 1472549082
Iran's identity -- Impact of revolution -- Christianity.
