Liminality and experience: the 1979 revolution in Iran and Shia religious symbols

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dc.contributor.authorSharifi Isaloo, Amin
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-09T11:15:02Z
dc.date.available2019-09-09T11:15:02Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.date.updated2019-09-08T16:47:42Z
dc.description.abstractDrawing on Victor Turner’s emphasis on the importance of symbols and his analyses of liminality together with Wilhelm Dilthey’s explanations of experience, and considering the mimetic theory of René Girard, this article focuses on the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran to explore Shia religion, particularly its symbols, before and after the 1979 revolution in Iran, where religion and politics influence each other. It demonstrates how a Shia ritual performance such as Ta’ziyeh and its symbols played key roles in mobilising crowds for the revolution, and how these symbols began to dominate political life, pervade all levels of society, and enable political actors and revolutionary clerics to legitimise their actions and violence after the revolution. In other words, it investigates how, under such liminal conditions, Shia Muslims’ means of commemorating the past shapes their present and future.en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationAmin Sharifi, I. (2018) 'Liminality and Experience: The 1979 Revolution in Iran and Shia Religious Symbols', Journal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions, 6, pp. 60-83.en
dc.identifier.endpage83en
dc.identifier.issn2009-7409
dc.identifier.journaltitleJournal of the Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religionsen
dc.identifier.startpage60en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/8472
dc.identifier.volume6en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherISASR in association with the Study of Religions, University College Corken
dc.relation.urihttps://jisasr.org
dc.rights© ISASR 2018.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectReligionen
dc.subjectRevolutionen
dc.subjectTa’ziyehen
dc.subjectLiminalityen
dc.subjectSymbolsen
dc.subjectIranen
dc.subjectCultureen
dc.subjectImitationen
dc.subjectSacrificeen
dc.subjectRitualen
dc.titleLiminality and experience: the 1979 revolution in Iran and Shia religious symbolsen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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