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158 Book Reviews Religion and Nation: Iranian Local and Transnational Networks in Britain. By Kathryn Spellman. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2004. viþ 235pp. £50, ISBN 1 57181 5767 hb; £15, ISBN 1 57181 5775 pb. Approximately 75,000 Iranians live in Britain, segmented by religion, politics, class, ethnicity and migratory trajectory. In Religion and Nation, Spellman, a sociologist, focuses on Iranians of Muslim background in London, examining an array of religious traditions and practices. Based on fieldwork carried out between 1996 and 2000, Spellman brings to the foreground everyday experiences rather than more public and politicized aspects of diasporic religion. After a background chapter on the nature of the Iranian population in Britain and how it is changing, the core of the book consists of three ethnographic chapters on different religious groupings and practices among Iranians in London. These are: Sofreh, a Shia Muslim religious ritual for Iranian women; Iranian Sufi orders in London; and finally Iranian converts to evangelical Christian groups. Spellman’s research admirably covers a wide range of social actors from different groups and networks who somewhat overlap but who are also sometimes surprisingly unaware of the existence and practices of others. Through her research, Spellman thus
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