Author: Loeffler, Reinhold
Title: Islam in Practice : Religious Beliefs in a Persian Village
Description: Albany, State University of New York, (1988). orig.boards. 23x15cm, ix,312 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: The Setting; The World Views: The Mullah: Uncommitted Formalism; The Former Landlord: Religion of Power; The Old Trader: Virtuoso Devotionalism; The Young Trader: Literal Zealotry; The Old Teacher; Idealistic Humanism; The Young Teacher: Rationalism & Orthodoxy; The Craftsman: Modernism Purism; The Representative of the People: Islamic Activism; The Prayer-Writer: The Problem of Efficacy; The Mystic: The Secrets of Control; The Old Hunter: Familiar of the Jinn; The Deep Believer: Belief as Knowledge; The Fundamentalist: Purist Orthodoxy; The Doubtful: Reason versus Tradition; The Calm: Grassroot Morality & Cosmic Harmony; The Pragmatist: Immanent Ritualism; The Mashhadi: Ritualism without Certainty; The Lower Peasant: Low-Key Religiosity; Trustful Surrender to God; The Wealthy: Legitimization of Good Fortune; The Poor: Suppressed Revolt; The Effect of the Revolution; Theoretical Commentary; Toward an Epistemological Theory of Religion; A Synopsis of the Cases.

Keywords: Iranian Ethnology, Iran Shi'ites, Shi'ite Shi'a, Islamic Sociology, Shi'ah Islam, Ethnography, Ethnology, Social Religion, Epistemology, Anthropology