Richard A. Horsley: Revival

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“Shiite Islam was revived and transformed by Iranians in direct reaction not only against western separation of religion from political-economic life, but more comprehensively against the transformation of their way of life by western political-economic power.”

Richard A. Horsley

Source: Religion and Empire: People, Power, and the Life of the Spirit (2003), p. 72

“Islamic revival sought the reunification of the spiritual with the social-political, and of contemporary life with cultural traditions, against the western imperialism that was forcing their separation.”

Richard A. Horsley

Source: Religion and Empire: People, Power, and the Life of the Spirit (2003), p. 52

“A key factor in [the revival of Shiite Islam in Iran] was the Iranians’ refusal to accept the western reduction of religion to individual faith, which would have enabled an easier imposition of a global capitalist political economy.”

Richard A. Horsley

Source: Religion and Empire: People, Power, and the Life of the Spirit (2003), p. 48

“Against the U. S.-sponsored program to deny subject peoples their own cultural heritage as well as participation in shaping their own social and economic life, Iranian opposition took the form of a revival of the only sphere of life that remained available, Shiite cultural tradition and the ritual space and symbols of the mosques.”

Richard A. Horsley

Source: Religion and Empire: People, Power, and the Life of the Spirit (2003), p. 72-73