Studies in modern religions and religious movements and the Babi-Baha'i faiths /

Other Authors: Sharon, Moshe,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.
Series:Numen book series. Studies in the history of religions, v. 104
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Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=167175
Table of Contents:
  • New religions and religious movements
  • the common heritage / Moshe Sharon
  • On prophecy and early Hasidism / Moshe idel
  • Rabbi Kook and his sources : from Kabbalistic historiosophy to national mysticism / Yoni Garb
  • Millennialist dreams and apocalyptic nightmares / Moojan Momen
  • Millenarianism and nineteenth-century new religions : the Mormon example / Grant Underwood
  • Critique of pure gematry / Meir Buzaglo
  • The eschatology of globalization : the multiple-messiahship of Bahāʼuʼllāh revisited / Christopher Buck
  • The Bābī-state conflict in Māzandarān : background, analysis and review of sources / Siyamak Zabihi-Moghaddam
  • The Azālī-Bahāʼī Faith crisis of September 1867 / Juan R.I. Cole
  • Ottoman reform movements and the Bahāʼī Faith, 1860s-1920s / Necati Alkan
  • "I never understood any of this from 'Abbās Effendi" : Muḥammad ʻAbduh's knowledge of the Bahāʼī teachings and his friendship with ʻAbdu'l-Bahāʼ ʻAbbās / William McCants
  • Bahāʼī and the Holy Land : religiogenesis and Shoghi Effendi's The faith of Bahāʼuʼllah : a world religion / Zaid Lundberg.