Recognition to Come: Towards a Deconstructive Encounter with Iranian Identity in a Globalized World

Considering the “relativization of identity”, “the positive recognition of the other”, “the mutual evaluation of cultures”, and the “creation of a normative world culture” as “four main kinds of cosmopolitan relationships” and, therefore, using the term cosmopolitanism in a “post-Western” register o...

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Main Author: Mesbahian, Hossein (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: MDPI [2021]
In: Religions
Year: 2021, Volume: 12, Issue: 1
Further subjects:B Cosmopolitanism
B Reinvention
B Prospects
B Challenges
B Identity
B Recognition
B Crisis
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