Religion and Society
Associate Professor Yaghoob Foroutan
Biography
Dr Yaghoob Foroutan completed PhD at the ANU Demography & Sociology Program, The Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia. His doctoral dissertation was awarded The W. D. Borrie Essay Prize by the Australian Population Association. He has been Post-Doctoral Fellow at The University of Waikato, New Zealand. Dr Foroutan is Associate Professor of Social Demography at Department of Social Sciences, University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Iran. He also holds positions as Research Associate at The University of Waikato Islamic Studies Group, Hamilton, New Zealand; and as Adjunct Fellow at School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia.
Dr Foroutan has served as the Chair of the Scientific Group on ‘Demography of Asian Migrants and Diasporas’ at The Asian Population Association; as a committee member of The Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR) in the USA, and as Guest Editor for the journal of Sociology of Social Institutions (a Special Issue in English language). He also serves as Editorial Board Member of 8 academic journals including Sociology of Social Institutions (in Persian), Comparative Islamic Studies; International Journal of Social Science Studies and Technology; Today Social Science; International Journal of Social Science Studies; International Journal of Education, Culture and Society; Humanities and Social Sciences; Cultural and Religious Studies. Dr Foroutan has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals including Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs; Current Sociology; British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies; New Zealand Sociology; International Migration Review; Journal of Population Research; Journal of Beliefs & Values: Studies in Religion & Education; Social Identities. Further details about him are available at the following links (Email Contact: y_foroutan@yahoo.com):
https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/religion_and_society/people/researchers/associate_professor_yaghoob_foroutan http://www.waikato.ac.nz/fass/UWISG/profile-y-foroutan.shtml & https://rms.umz.ac.ir/~foroutan/en/
Qualifications
2007 Doctor of Philosophy in Demography, Demography & Sociology Program, The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
1995 Master in Demography, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran
1993 Master in Sociology, Azad University, Tehran, Iran
1990 Bachelor in Social Sciences, Allameh Tabatabaie University, Tehran, Iran
Honours and Awards
2009 The Award of Excellence in Research, as the Best Researcher in the area of Social Sciences in a competitive basis amongst the academic staff of all universities in Mazandaran Province, Iran.
2004 The Award of The W. D. Borrie Essay Prize (by the Australian Population Association) for the best PhD research, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
2001 The Award of Excellence in Teaching and Research by the University of Mazandaran, Babolsar, Mazandaran Province, Iran.
Publications
2022, Education’s Economic Return in Multicultural Australia: Demographic Analysis, Journal of Sociology, OnlineFirst, in press.
2022, “Demographic Analysis on Social Perceptions of Hijab in Contemporary Iran: Dimensions and Determinants”, British
Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, OnlineFirst, in press.
2021,Women’s Dress Codes in the Islamic Republic of Iran: State’s Gender Ideology Representation, Gender Issues,38:121-133.
2021, The Institutionalization of State Religion in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Socio-Demographic Perspective, Politics, Religion & Ideology, 22 (1): 84-102.
2020, Ethnic or Religious Identities?: Multicultural Analysis in Australia from Socio-Demographic Perspective, Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies, 7 (1): 1-14.
2019, "Cultural Analysis of Half-Century Demographic Swings of Iran: The Place of Popular Culture", Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies, 6 (1): 77-89.
2019, Formation of Gender Identity in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Does Educational Institution Matter?, Journal of Beliefs &
Values: Studies in Religion & Education, 39 (2): 1-18.
2018, Formation of Gender Identity in the Islamic Republic of Iran: Does Educational Institution Matter?, Journal of Beliefs & Values: Studies in Religion & Education, Vol. 39, Issue 2.
2017, Muslim Minority of New Zealand in Global Context: Demographic Perspective, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 37 (4): 511-519.
2017, Construction of Religious Identity in Contemporary Iran: Sociological Perspective, Journal of Persianate Studies, 10 (1): 107-127.
2015, Misunderstood Population?: Methodological Debate on Demography of Muslims in the West, IN: Yearbook of International Religious Demography, The Netherlands: Brill Press.
2015, Demography of Muslims in New Zealand: Comparative Perspective, Waikato Islamic Studies Review, Vol. 1, No. 1: 50-64.
2014, Social Change and Demographic Response in Iran (1956-2006), British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 41 (2).
2013, Family-Work Dilemma of Female Migrants: Patterns and Strategies, Migration and Development, 2 (2): 1-19.
2013, Social Analysis of Gender Differentials in Language Learning Resources, IN: LED 2011: May, S. (Ed.), Auckland, New Zealand: University of Auckland.
2013, Content Analysis of Religious Education in the Islamic Republic of Iran, pp. 49-67, IN: Society, the State and Religious Education Politics, Ergon Publishing House, Würzburg, Germany.
2012, Gender Representation in School-textbooks of Iran: The Place of Languages, Current Sociology, Vol. 60, Issue 6, pp. 771-787.
2012, Multiculturalism and challenges of religion: The place of Buddhism from a comparative perspective, IN: Teaching Dhamma in New Lands, Bangkok: The International Associations of Buddhist University, pp. 334-348.
2011, Ethnic and Religious Discrimination?: Multicultural Analysis of Muslim Minorities in the West, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Vol. 31, no. 3: 327-338.
2011, “Multiculturalism and Women’s Employment: Sociological Perspective”, New Zealand Sociology, Vol. 26, no. 1: 122-142.
2011, “Gender and Education: Empirical Observations”, Proceedings of 2010 Annual Conference of New Zealand Association for Research in Education, Wellington: NZARE.
2009, "Gender and Religion:The Status of Women in the Muslim World", IN: The World's Religions: Continuities and Transformations, edited by Peter Clarke and Peter Beyer, London and New York: Routledge Publication, pp. 223-235.
2009,"Migration and Gender Roles: Typical Work Pattern of the MENA Women”, International Migration Review, Vol. 43, No. 4: 974-992.
2009, "Religion, Migration and Social Change: Christian-Muslim Differentials", Australian Religion Studies Review, 22 (3): 295-319.
2008, "Women's Employment, Religion and Multiculturalism: Socio-demographic Emphasis", Journal of Population Research, Vol. 25, No. 1: 63-90.
2008, "Migration Differentials in Women’s Market Employment: An Empirical and Multicultural Analysis", International Migration Review. Vol. 42, No. 3: 675-703.
2008, "Employment Differentials of Second Generation Muslim Migrants: Assimilation and Discrimination Hypotheses", Immigrants & Minorities, Vol. 26, No. 3: 219–241.
2008, "South Asian Female Migrants’ Work Differentials: Multicultural Assessment", South Asia Research, Vol. 28, No. 2: 203–224.
2008, "Gender, Religion and Work: Comparative Analysis of South Asian Migrants", Fieldwork in Religion, Vol. 3, No. 1: 29-50.
2008, "Asian Migrant Women’s Employment Participation: Patterns, Determinants and Differentials", Asian Journal of Women's Studies, Vol. 14, No. 2: 109-141. (with McDonald, P.)
In Persian
Articles in Persian language are available on the following link:
Keynote Speeches
2018, "Religions, Multiculturalism, Globalization: Methodological Perspective", Keynote lecture presented at the Conference of the International Research Training Group: “Religious Cultures in 19th and 20th-Century Europe”, Religion and Transnational Religious Discourses: Globality Construction and Resistance, German Historical Institute Rome, Rome, Italy (June 21-22)
Contact
Email: y_foroutan@yahoo.com
Web: http://www.waikato.ac.nz/fass/UWISG/profile-y-foroutan.shtml
