"Intensive measures of repression taken by the Shah to enforce his westernizing development program nearly eliminated …"

"Even though leading scholars ... recognize that Paul's letters were not theological treatises, they still construct P…"

"Cultural elites in countries that dominate peoples have adapted subject people’s religion for their own purposes."

"A key factor in [the revival of Shiite Islam in Iran] was the Iranians’ refusal to accept the western reduction of re…"

"Frightened by the specter of “Islamic fundamentalism” we readily reject the “extremism” of “fundamentalists” and iden…"

"Mosques provided the only possible meeting places in which the coalition of resistance forces could meet, and they pr…"

"Since God himself is just and commands justice, the Muslim community (umma) cannot tolerate a tyrannical law or a tyr…"

"Khomeini ... was a paradigm of asceticism, which in Islam was not a withdrawal from worldly affairs but a refusal to …"

"Since the U.S. had previously seemed to be a protector of the right to self-determination, Iranians felt terribly bet…"

"Shiite Islam was revived and transformed by Iranians in direct reaction not only against western separation of religi…"