{"id":142,"date":"2018-11-08T09:35:24","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T14:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/?p=142"},"modified":"2018-11-08T09:35:24","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T14:35:24","slug":"modernitys-wager-unmade-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/uncategorized\/modernitys-wager-unmade-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Modernity&#8217;s Wager Unmade in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Please note: \u00a0Blog posts for this week are due on Saturday, the responses to a response on Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Adam Seligman offers a provocative claim of loss and anomie against what he describes as modernity&#8217;s lost wager. In what ways do the religious thinkers and politicians that we&#8217;ve studied so far, including Taqizadeh, Al e Ahmad, Shariati, Motahhari, Soroush, among many others (please\u00a0pick at least one) replicate or resolve the problematic that lies at the heart of Seligman&#8217;s book? \u00a0Alternatively, how does Farzin Vahdat&#8217;s book, <em>God and Juggernaut<\/em>, affirm or disconfirm the arguments of\u00a0<em>Modernity&#8217;s Wager<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please note: \u00a0Blog posts for this week are due on Saturday, the responses to a response on Sunday. Adam Seligman offers a provocative claim of loss and anomie against what he describes as modernity&#8217;s lost wager. In what ways do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/uncategorized\/modernitys-wager-unmade-in-iran\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1690,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1690"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/psci257-f18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}