Prayer and Protest: The Protestant Communities in Revolutionary Iran

Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. Constructive Revolutions: The Protestant Churches in Pre-Revolutionary Iran
1.1. Facing and Struggling with History
1.2. The Churches and the Shah
1.3. Iranian Protestantism: The Roots of Indigenous Churches
1.4. On the Eve of Revolution: The Protestant Comimunities in Iran in the 1970s

2. An Unpredictable Revolution: Revolutionary Fever and the Protestant Churches
2.1. Redefining and Rediscovering History
2.2. The Ayatollah and the Church
2.3. Hostages, Prisoners, and the Iranian Church
2.4. Remembering the Revolution

3. Everyday Revolutions: Iranian Protestants in the Revolutionary State
3.1. The Exiled Church, Migrations, and the Re-shaping of the Protestant Tradition in Iran
3.2. The Church of Converts and the Martyred Church
3.3. Martyrdom as a Practice
3.4. The Global Church and Cyberspace Iranian Communities

Conciusions
Bibliography
Index