Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9789047407461
Content:
Preliminary Material -- When the Global Meets the Local -- Approaches to Babi and Baha’i Studies -- Development of a Globalisation Perspective -- Religious Conflicts in Iran -- The Making of a Global Religion -- The Making of a Baha’i Community -- Becoming a Baha’i -- Belonging to a Baha’i Community -- Mobilisation of the Baha’is -- The Baha’i World Centre -- Baha’is Going Global -- Summary and Conclusions -- Interview Survey -- Bibliography -- Index -- Colour Plates -- Black and White Plates -- Studies in the History of Religions Numen Book Series.
Content:
Citizens of the World deals with the Baha’is and their religion. While covering the historical development in sufficient detail to serve as a general monograph on Baha’i, emphasis is laid on examining contemporary Baha’i, with the Danish Baha’i community as a recurrent case. The book discusses Baha’i religious texts, rituals, economy, everyday life, demographic development, mission strategies, leadership, and international activism in analyses based on primary material, such as interview studies among the Baha’is, fieldwork data from the Baha’i World Centre in Israel, and field trips around the world. The approach is a combination of history of religions and sociology of religion within a theoretical framework of religion and globalisation. Several general topics in the study of new religions are covered. The book contributes to the theoretical study of globalisation by proposing a new model for analysing globalisation and transnational religions
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004143739
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Citizens of the World: A History and Sociology of the Baha'is from a Globalisation Perspective Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2006 ISBN 9789004143739
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789047407461
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