{"id":55,"date":"2011-03-02T12:17:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T16:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/understandingsecularism.wp.trincoll.edu\/2011\/03\/02\/secularism-in-iran-a-hidden-agenda\/"},"modified":"2011-10-12T13:34:58","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T17:34:58","slug":"secularism-in-iran-a-hidden-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/2011\/03\/02\/secularism-in-iran-a-hidden-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Secularism in Iran: A Hidden Agenda?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nastaran Moossavi,<\/p>\n<p>McGill Teaching Fellow in International Studies at Trinity College<\/p>\n<p>In a country where honest responses to simple questions such as \u201cAre you a Muslim? Do you believe in God? Is the Holy Koran the word of God? Do you pray and read the Holy Koran? When you were growing up did your father pray, fast, and read the Holy Koran?\u201d led to mass executions in the late 1980\u2019s, it is very difficult to know who is secular and to what extent. In this kind of situation people do not trust each other easily and often deny their true identity. It is\u00a0infinitely more complicated to conduct a survey that asks questions like \u201cWhat is your religion, if any?\u201d Therefore, this assessment of religious identification among Iranians has shortcomings in terms of a quantifiable evaluation.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View Secularism in Iran: A Hidden Agenda? on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/17374741\/Secularism-in-Iran-A-Hidden-Agenda\">Secularism in Iran: A Hidden Agenda?<\/a> <object height=\"600\" width=\"100%\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"document_id=17374741&amp;access_key=key-eadb93do8imbcg3r7x3&amp;page=1&amp;viewMode=list\"><embed name=\"doc_39593\" src=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=17374741&amp;access_key=key-eadb93do8imbcg3r7x3&amp;page=1&amp;viewMode=list\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"600\" width=\"100%\" wmode=\"opaque\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nastaran Moossavi, McGill Teaching Fellow in International Studies at Trinity College In a country where honest responses to simple questions such as \u201cAre you a Muslim? Do you believe in God? Is the Holy Koran the word of God? Do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/2011\/03\/02\/secularism-in-iran-a-hidden-agenda\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,23,28,31,33],"tags":[59,63],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1239,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/1239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}