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How does a born-again Christian deal with a born-again Moslem?” the religious dimension of the Iranian hostage crisis / Jones, Blake W

Jones, Blake W	Article
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The Iranian hostage crisis remains as one of the dominant memories from the presidency of Jimmy Carter. While scholars and journalists have devoted considerable attention to the administration's response to the crisis, no one has focused on the religious dimension of the hostage crisis. Drawing extensively on the archival records of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, this study argues that American and Iranian perceptions of the other's religion complicated a conflict already fraught with sacred symbolism. While the Iranians castigated Carter for insincerely professing his faith, the president's foreign policy advisors underestimated the role of religion in the new Iranian regime and how it might be used to bring the hostages home. The hostages finally came home when the United States negotiated with Iran's religious leaders and those leaders no longer had any political use for the hostages. Ultimately, this essay contributes to the relatively small literature analyzing the foreign relations of the Carter administration through a religious lens.

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Religious Dimension ; Jimmy Carter ; Carter Administration ; Born - Again Christian ; Born - Again Moslem ; Iranian Hostage Crisis

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Negotiating Europe: the politics of religion and the prospects for Turkish accession / Hurd, Elizabeth Shakman

Hurd, Elizabeth Shakman	Journal Article
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2006.

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This article examines the cultural basis of European opposition to Turkish accession to the European Union (EU). Most observers depict the cultural and religious dimensions of the European debate over Turkish accession as a disagreement between those who see Europe as a Christian 'club' and those open to a more religiously pluralistic European identity. However, polls suggest that cultural and religiously based doubts about Turkish accession resonate with a much larger proportion of the European population than those who publicly defend the idea of an exclusivist 'Christian' Europe. Both secularists and Christian exclusivists ('traditionalists') express hesitations about Turkish membership:

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Turkey ; Europe ; Accession ; Cultural Dimension ; Religious Dimension

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Religious dimension of Turkey's policy in Ajaria and the Georgi / Ivanov, Vladimir

Ivanov, Vladimir	Journal Article
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2011.

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Turkey ; Russia ; Religious Dimension ; Georgian Orthodox Church ; Tbilisi ; Turkish - Georgian Relations ;
Soviet Union

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