Intellectual Trends in the Post-Revolutionary Iran, A Critical ‎Analysis of Three Decades of Public Debates on Society, ‎‎Governance, Religion and the Role of Intellectuals

Document Type : Original Research

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Associate Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies, Institute of Humanities and Cultural ‎Studies, Tehran, Iran‎
Abstract
In this article, the author is attempting to inquire intellectual trends in the post-‎revolutionary context of Iran. He has gone through the works of Soroush, Malekyan and ‎Kadivar in relation to questions such as religion, society, governance, state and religion. His main idea could be summed up as the break-away of religious ‎intellectuals from conceptualizing religion in terms of jurisprudential frame of reference and ‎this itself has created new ways of understanding religion and its locus within modern ‎society of Iran in the 21st century.‎

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