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

• Superior document: Numen book series. Studies in the history of religions, v. 104
• TeilnehmendeR: Sharon, Moshe.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2004.
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the history of religions ; 104.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 329 pages)
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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.

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, 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.