Religion Media And Conversion In Iran

Author : Sara Afshari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032454350

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Religion, Media and Conversion in Iran by Sara Afshari Pdf

"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, it 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"--

Author : Sara Afshari
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000853186

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Religion, Media and Conversion in Iran by Sara Afshari Pdf

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.

Author : Dominic Parviz Brookshaw,Seena B. Fazel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781134250004

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The Baha'is of Iran by Dominic Parviz Brookshaw,Seena B. Fazel Pdf

First comprehensive study of the Baha’i community of Iran Wide range of topics covered, including the role of women, schools and literature Includes many chapters authored by leading academics in Iranian Studies Fills a gap in the study of modern Iran

Author : Mehrdad Amanat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Bahai converts from Judaism
ISBN : 0755608615

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Jewish Identities in Iran by Mehrdad Amanat Pdf

"For minority faith groups living in nineteenth-century Iran, religious conversion to Islam - both voluntary and forced - was the primary means of social integration and assimilation. However, why was it that some Persian Jews instead embraced the emergent Baha'i Faith, which was subject to harsher persecution that Judaism? Mehrdad Amanat explores the conversion experiences of Jewish families during this time, and examines the fluid, multiple religious identities that many converts adopted. The religious fluidity exemplified in the widespread voluntary conversion of Iranian Jews to Baha'ism presents an alternative to the rejectionist view of religion that regards millennia of religious experience as inherently coercive, oppressive, rigidly dogmatic and a consistently divisive social force."--Bloomsbury publishing.

Author : Alessandro Bausani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015049653325

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Religion in Iran by Alessandro Bausani Pdf

Author : Hormoz Shariat
Publisher : Whitaker House
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781733749053

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Iran's Great Awakening by Hormoz Shariat Pdf

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 : Kerstin Radde-Antweiler,Xenia Zeiler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351396080

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The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Journalism by Kerstin Radde-Antweiler,Xenia Zeiler Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Journalism is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, challenges, past and present global issues and debates in this exciting subject. The first collection of its kind, this volume comprises over 25 chapters by a team of international contributors. This Handbook is divided into five parts, each taking global developments in the field into account: Theoretical Reflections Power and Authority Conflict, Radicalization and Populism Dialogue and Peacebuilding Trends Within these sections, central issues, debates and developments are examined, including religious and secular press; ethics; globalization; gender; datafication; differentiation; journalistic religious literacy; race and religious extremism. This volume is essential reading for students and researchers in journalism and religious studies. This Handbook will also be very useful for those in related fields, such as sociology, communication studies, media studies and area studies.

Author : Laurens de Rooij
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000862102

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Muslims, Minorities, and the Media by Laurens de Rooij Pdf

Inspired by overtly negative coverage by the Western mainstream press of Muslims in particular, and minorities in general, this book asks: Why are negative narratives and depictions of Muslims and other minorities so hard to change? News reports about Islam and Muslims commonly relate stories that discuss terrorism, violence or other unwelcome or irrational behaviour, or the lack of integration and compatibility of Muslims and Islam with Western values and society. Yet there is little research done on how studies on media reports about minorities seemingly fail to improve the situation. Combining empirical research with a structural analysis of the media industry, this volume presents evidence for the maligned representation of minorities by media corporations, analysing why negative narratives persist and outlining how these can be effectively transformed. It is an outstanding resource for students and scholars of media, religion, culture, sociology, and Islamic studies, and is also of benefit for journalists, media representatives, and activists looking to effect change for minority representation in the media industry specifically or in society at large.

Author : Nabil Echchaibi,Stewart M. Hoover
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000841411

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The Third Spaces of Digital Religion by Nabil Echchaibi,Stewart M. Hoover Pdf

This exciting volume explores how religious meaning is generated and performed in our present digital media ecosystem. It uses the spatial metaphor of a third space to visualize the mobility of everyday religion and to explore the dynamic ways in which contemporary subjects imagine, produce, and navigate new religious and spiritual places. Comprised of seven original essays, this book provides a rigorous discussion of the complex intersections of the digital and religion, demonstrating how third spaces of religion stand out by virtue of their in-betweenness. They exist between private and public, between institution and individual, between authority and individual autonomy, between large media framings and individual "pro-sumption," and between local and translocal. Including probing analysis of how Muslim, Catholic, and Neo-Pagan identities are cultivated and developed online, case studies reflect on the creative outcomes of this condition of in-betweenness and the emergence of other places of religious and spiritual meaning. Blending theoretical analysis with grounded empirical research, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of contemporary religion, media and religion, sociology of religion, religion, and popular culture.

Author : Dorota Hall,Marta Kołodziejska,Kerstin Radde-Antweiler
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000905120

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Minority Churches as Media Settlers by Dorota Hall,Marta Kołodziejska,Kerstin Radde-Antweiler Pdf

How do minority Christian churches adapt to and negotiate with the changes brought about by deep mediatization? How do they use their media to present themselves to their followers and the general public? This book aims to answer these questions by investigating how minority organizations of two different Christian traditions in the UK and Poland – the Seventh-day Adventist Church and the Orthodox Churches – use their own media to position themselves in their social, religious, and political environments. Based on the analyses of media practices, media content, and interview material, the study develops the new concept of media settlers, which pertains to religious organizations that use their media to fulfill their own aims: expand, assert their authority, and maintain their communities. They do so through five key media practices, which can be defined as strategies: acknowledgment, authorization, omission, replication of content, and mass-mediatization of digital media. This book is of particular interest to scholars of religion and mediatization, mainly sociologists, graduate students, and qualitative researchers working with discourse analysis. It is an insightful read for anyone interested in the Seventh-day Adventist and Orthodox Churches nowadays.

Author : A. Christian Van Gorder
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0739136097

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Christianity in Persia and the Status of Non-muslims in Iran by A. Christian Van Gorder Pdf

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 : Nikki R. Keddie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136280412

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Iran by Nikki R. Keddie Pdf

First Published in 1983. This book brings together the best of Professor Keddie's articles on Iran both published and newly written and spans almost two decades. Long before the current religious-political alliance in Iran startled the world and toppled the Shah, Prof.Keddie undertook a series of studies that reveal the social, economic, doctrinal and political roots of what she was the first to call the 'Religious-Radical' alliance in Iran.

Author : Esmail Bagheri-Najmi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89094302056

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The Media and Religious Change by Esmail Bagheri-Najmi Pdf

Author : Murtaz̤á Muṭahharī
Publisher : Alhoda UK
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Iran
ISBN : 9647741472

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The reciprocal services between Islam and iran by Murtaz̤á Muṭahharī Pdf

Author : S. Behnaz Hosseini
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789811664441

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Yari Religion in Iran by S. Behnaz Hosseini Pdf

This book sheds light on the cultural traits and religious beliefs of the Yārsan community. By incorporating historical and ethnographic research on Yārsan community in west and North of Iran, fieldwork and meticulous analysis of religious texts and international literature, it reveals contemporary aspects of Yārsan culture and life that are lesser known to the wider public, and provides insights into their lives, traditions and prospects for the future. With researchers from inside Iran and all over the world, this book offers a new look at Yārsan.