Studies in Modern Religions, Religious Movements and the Bābī-Bahā'ī Faiths.

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 a...

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Main Author: Moshe Sharon (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2004.

Series: Numen Book Series 104.
Numen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837.

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Call Number: BP603

Table of 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, 1860s-1920s /
  • 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.