Studies in modern religions and religious movements and the Babi-Baha'i faiths / edited by Moshe Sharon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sharon, Moshe.

Series:

Studies in the history of religions ; 104.

Numen book series. Studies in the history of religions, 0169-8834 ; v. 104

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sects--History--Congresses.

Sects.

Babism--History--Congresses.

Babism.

Bahai Faith--History--Congresses.

Bahai Faith.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 329 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this book leading scholars contribute comprehensive studies of the religious movements in the late 18th and 19th centuries: the Hassidic movements in Judaism, the Mormon religion, in Christianity, and the Bābī-Bahā’ī faiths in Shī‘te Islam. The studies, introduced by the editor’s analysis of the underlying common source of this religious activity, lead the reader into a rich world of messianism, millenniarism and eschatological thought fueling the intense modern developments in the three major monotheistic religions.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Moshe Sharon

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 Bahāʾuʾllāh Revisited / Christopher Buck

The Bābī-State Conflict in Māzandarān: Background, Analysis and Review of Sources / Siyamak Zabihi-Moghaddam

The Azālī-Bahāʾī Crisis of September 1867 / Juan R.I. Cole

Ottoman Reform Movements and the Bahāʾī Faith, 1860's–1920's / Necati Alkan

“I Never Understood Any of this From ʿAbbās Effendi”: Muḥammad ʿAbduh’s Knowledge of the Bahāʾī Teachings and His Friendship with ʿAbdu’l-Bahāʾ ʿAbbās / William McCants

Bahāʾī and the Holy Land: Religiogenesis and Shoghi Effendi’s The Faith of Bahāʾuʾllāh: A World Religion / Zaid Lundberg

Index / Moshe Sharon

Studies in the History of Religions Numen Book Series / Moshe Sharon.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-91528-5

9786610915286

90-474-0557-9

1-4294-0816-2

OCLC:

182530443