Iranian Youth and Religion: An Empirical Study

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Notes

¹ See, for instance, “Epilogue” to Persian translation of Fred Halliday, Iran: Dictatorship and Development (1980).

² On the work of the Jehad-e Sazandegi [development jehad], see E. Hooglund (2009) Thirty years of Islamic revolution in rural Iran, Middle East Report, 250 (Spring 2009), pp. 34–36.

³ See, A. Rezaei & A. Abdi (1998) Entekhab-e No [New choice] (Tehran: Tarh-e-no).

⁴ For an assessment of Iran's family planning program, see H. Hoodfar (2009) Activism under the radar: Volunteer women health workers in Iran, Middle East Report, 250 (Spring 2009), pp. 56–60.

⁶ See M. P. Marchak (1993) The Integrated Circus (Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press).

⁷ See, N. Howe & W. Strauss (2000) Millennials Rising (Vintage Books).

⁸ See, for instance, R. Bibby (2001) Canada's Teens (Toronto: Stoddart).

⁹ E. Durkheim (2008 [1912]) The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (New York: Oxford University Press).

¹⁰ C. Glock & R. Stark (1965) Religion and Society in Tension (Chicago: Rand McNally).

¹¹ Ibid., p. 22.

¹² See, among others, R. Stark & W. Bainbridge (1987) A Theory of Religion (New York: Peter Lang); R. Stark & R. Finke (2000) Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of Religion (Berkeley: University of California Press); and L. A. Young (Ed.) (1997) Rational Choice Theory and Religion (Oxford: Routledge).

¹³ See further R. W. Bibby (1990) Fragmented Gods (Toronto: Stoddart).

¹⁴ See, for example, A. Kazemipur & A. Rezaei (2003) Religious life under theocracy: The case of Iran, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 42(3), pp. 347–362; and G. M. Tezcur & T. Azadarmaki (2006) Religious participation among Muslims: Iranian exceptionalism, Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies, 15(3), pp. 217–232.

¹⁵ See further Howe & Strauss, Millennials Rising.

¹⁶ A. Asadi (1977) Gerayeshha-ye Farhangi va Negareshha-ye Ejtema'i dar Iran [Cultural inclinations and social attitudes in Iran] (Tehran: Pajuhesh-kadey-e olum-e ertebati va tose'ey-e Iran); M. Mohseni (2000) Barresi-ye agahiha, Negares-ha va Raftarha dar Iran [Examination of knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors in Iran] (Tehran: Shora-ye farhang-e omumi-ye keshvar); and Office of National Projects (2000 and 2003) Paymayesh-e mell-iye arzes-ha va negares-ha [National survey of values and attitudes] (Tehran: Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance).

¹⁷ For an excellent report on the contents of the ‘Persian Blogosphere’, see J. Kelly & B. Etling (2008) Mapping Iran's Online Public: Politics and Culture in the Persian Blogosphere (Cambridge: The Harvard Law School).

¹⁸ Prime examples of such works include Y. Sahabi, Khelghat-e ensan [Creation of Humans]; A. Meshkini, Qur'an va takamol [Quran and evolution]; and Mojaheddin Khalgh Organization, Takamol [Evolution].

²⁰ Ibid., translated from the letters in the Appendix to this article.

¹⁹ See Hossein-Ali Montazeri, Memoirs. Available at http://www.amontazeri.com/farsi/frame10.asp (accessed).

²¹ See R. Stark & R. Finke (2000) Acts of Faith (University of California Press).

²² Ibid., p. 38.

²³ A. Kazemipur & A. Rezaei (2003) Life under Theocracy: The Case of Iran, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 42(3), pp. 347–362.