The Study of Resilience and Decay in Ulema Groups: Tunisia and Iran as an Example
This paper suggests that resilience of ulema groups in adverse environments highly depends upon the levels of their accumulation of three institutional and symbolic capitals; namely doctrinal consensus institutional autonomy and leadership charisma. The author uses the examples of Tunisia and Iran t...
| Published in: | Sociology of religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2002
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2002, Volume: 63, Issue: 3, Pages: 317-334 |
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| Summary: | This paper suggests that resilience of ulema groups in adverse environments highly depends upon the levels of their accumulation of three institutional and symbolic capitals; namely doctrinal consensus institutional autonomy and leadership charisma. The author uses the examples of Tunisia and Iran to show that the success of ulema institutions to secure a working combination of all three capitals is in tum highly shaped by the possibilities of history, the potentialities of environment, and the imaginative capabilities of the ulema themselves. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3712472 |