Ramin Jahanbegloo is professor of political science at the University of Toronto.

Ramin Jahanbegloo has collected an outstanding group of specialists to produce Democracy and Civil Society in Iran. This work will be of greatest interest not only to those concerned with the current state of the civil society problem internationally, but to all who have been watching the Iranian crisis and the Green movement. The analyses offered here have a better chance of helping to comprehend where Iranian politics may be headed than any other available study. A remarkable piece of collective work.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Theorizing Civil Society in IranChapter 1: Civil Society in Iran: The Story of a Century-Long StruggleChapter 2: Theorizing Civil Society in Contemporary IranChapter 3: The Green Movement in Iran: Democratization and Secularization from BelowChapter 4: The Civil Society Approach to Democratization in Iran: The Case for Bringing it Back in, Carefully Part II: Islam, Secularism, and Efforts for DemocratizationChapter 5: Religious Disputation and Democratic Constitutionalism: The Enduring Legacy of the Constitutional Revolution on the Struggle for Democracy in IranChapter 6: Religious Life in a Secular StateChapter 7: Humble SecularismChapter 8: What is our Problem?Part III: Gender and PoliticsChapter 9: Green Women of IranChapter 10: A Feminist Agenda for the Iranian Constitution: Gender at the Intersection of Disputed IdentitiesChapter 11: The Other Side of the Quest for Democracy in IranChapter 12: Women and the Women’s Movement in Post-elections: Double Females? Part IV: Identity and Group RightsChapter 13: The Baha’i Community, Human Rights, and the Construction of a New Iranian Identity Chapter 14: Democracy, Civil Society, and the Iranian Working Class: The Struggle for Independent Labor OrganizationsChapter 15: Labour Organizing in Iran: Lessons of the 1979 RevolutionChapter 16: A Confident GenerationIndex About the Editor and Contributors

Ramin Jahanbegloo is professor of political science at the University of Toronto.

Ramin Jahanbegloo has collected an outstanding group of specialists to produce Democracy and Civil Society in Iran. This work will be of greatest interest not only to those concerned with the current state of the civil society problem internationally, but to all who have been watching the Iranian crisis and the Green movement. The analyses offered here have a better chance of helping to comprehend where Iranian politics may be headed than any other available study. A remarkable piece of collective work.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Theorizing Civil Society in IranChapter 1: Civil Society in Iran: The Story of a Century-Long StruggleChapter 2: Theorizing Civil Society in Contemporary IranChapter 3: The Green Movement in Iran: Democratization and Secularization from BelowChapter 4: The Civil Society Approach to Democratization in Iran: The Case for Bringing it Back in, Carefully Part II: Islam, Secularism, and Efforts for DemocratizationChapter 5: Religious Disputation and Democratic Constitutionalism: The Enduring Legacy of the Constitutional Revolution on the Struggle for Democracy in IranChapter 6: Religious Life in a Secular StateChapter 7: Humble SecularismChapter 8: What is our Problem?Part III: Gender and PoliticsChapter 9: Green Women of IranChapter 10: A Feminist Agenda for the Iranian Constitution: Gender at the Intersection of Disputed IdentitiesChapter 11: The Other Side of the Quest for Democracy in IranChapter 12: Women and the Women’s Movement in Post-elections: Double Females? Part IV: Identity and Group RightsChapter 13: The Baha’i Community, Human Rights, and the Construction of a New Iranian Identity Chapter 14: Democracy, Civil Society, and the Iranian Working Class: The Struggle for Independent Labor OrganizationsChapter 15: Labour Organizing in Iran: Lessons of the 1979 RevolutionChapter 16: A Confident GenerationIndex About the Editor and Contributors

Ramin Jahanbegloo is professor of political science at the University of Toronto.

Ramin Jahanbegloo has collected an outstanding group of specialists to produce Democracy and Civil Society in Iran. This work will be of greatest interest not only to those concerned with the current state of the civil society problem internationally, but to all who have been watching the Iranian crisis and the Green movement. The analyses offered here have a better chance of helping to comprehend where Iranian politics may be headed than any other available study. A remarkable piece of collective work.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: Theorizing Civil Society in IranChapter 1: Civil Society in Iran: The Story of a Century-Long StruggleChapter 2: Theorizing Civil Society in Contemporary IranChapter 3: The Green Movement in Iran: Democratization and Secularization from BelowChapter 4: The Civil Society Approach to Democratization in Iran: The Case for Bringing it Back in, Carefully Part II: Islam, Secularism, and Efforts for DemocratizationChapter 5: Religious Disputation and Democratic Constitutionalism: The Enduring Legacy of the Constitutional Revolution on the Struggle for Democracy in IranChapter 6: Religious Life in a Secular StateChapter 7: Humble SecularismChapter 8: What is our Problem?Part III: Gender and PoliticsChapter 9: Green Women of IranChapter 10: A Feminist Agenda for the Iranian Constitution: Gender at the Intersection of Disputed IdentitiesChapter 11: The Other Side of the Quest for Democracy in IranChapter 12: Women and the Women’s Movement in Post-elections: Double Females? Part IV: Identity and Group RightsChapter 13: The Baha’i Community, Human Rights, and the Construction of a New Iranian Identity Chapter 14: Democracy, Civil Society, and the Iranian Working Class: The Struggle for Independent Labor OrganizationsChapter 15: Labour Organizing in Iran: Lessons of the 1979 RevolutionChapter 16: A Confident GenerationIndex About the Editor and Contributors