Studies in modern religions and religious movements and the Babi-Baha'i faiths / / edited by Moshe Sharon.
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...
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Superior document: | Numen book series. Studies in the history of religions, v. 104 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2004. |
Year of Publication: | 2004 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Studies in the history of religions ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 329 pages) |
Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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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.