Authors
1 Tehran univesity
2 elmi
Abstract
This paper specifically focuses on heyatha which are known as “new style” in maddahi and azadari in the recent decades as well as on their audience. The theoretical foundations of the research is used from anthropological interpretive methodology of cliford Girtz. Heyatha could be seen as religious crowd possessing urban features. The range of their audience is far more various than those of mosques. The second half of the 1990s decade experienced the tremendous expanding of “ new style” heyatha and their content in the urban space as well as acute youths attitude to them. In general, today this new discourse has dominated azadari in the urban space particularly the subordinate youths centers. The Karbala discourse is the most important religious discourse which provides them with the main religious framework to make sense Shiite and its ritual and action based on this sense.
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