TY - JOUR ID - 20168 TI - THE PAHLAVI POLICIES TO WARD BAHAISM (1953-1979) JO - POLITICAL QUARTERLY JA - JPQ LA - en SN - 1735-9678 AU - Sinaee, Vahid AU - Chamankhah, Leila AD - Y1 - 2009 PY - 2009 VL - 39 IS - 2 SP - EP - KW - Bahaism KW - centralization KW - minority behavior KW - Pahlavi regime KW - Secularism DO - N2 - Minority groups; including ethnicities, religious communities, and racial groups have been subjected state policies and strategies as a result of the extending and diversifying the modern nation-states. To study the State, as the most important body of formulating these policies is the first step toward the study of the minority question. On the other hand, minorities are not "passive social entities" and can share in shaping the official policies, improving view point of political elites toward minorities and even affecting minority politics. During the 1953-1979, in Iran "Minority Politics" has been changed dramatically. At this time, three different trends have met: Secularism of the State resulting in applying more limitations for religious tendencies and then activation of Bahaism in various fields of the society like economy, education, cultural issues, etc, Centralization of Power, which was an effort conducted by the court to marginalize UR - https://jpq.ut.ac.ir/article_20168.html L1 - https://jpq.ut.ac.ir/article_20168_592ace97de9c772430d6e11873dae1ab.pdf ER -