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Modernity and the Millennium: The Genesis of the Baha'i Faith in the Nineteenth Century

Modernity and the Millennium: The Genesis of the Baha'i Faith in the Nineteenth Century - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Juan ColeSeries:History and Society of the Modern Middle EastPublish date:1998-05-01Pages:400
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231110815ISBN-10:231110812UPC:9780231110815Book Category:Religion, HistoryBook Subcategory:Baha' i, Middle East, HistorySize:9.03 x 6.06 x 0.61 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCZWQDBBEQ

Modernity and the Millennium is the first book to chart responses in the Muslim Middle East to modernity through an examination of the evolution of the Baha'i faith--a millenarian movement led by the nineteenth-century Iranian prophet Baha'u'llah ("the Glory of God"). This volume illuminates the complexity and ambiguity that characterized the changing relationship of Baha'u'llah and his followers to modernity, considered as a transnational and fluid political and cultural field of contestation. The insights presented here into these responses to modernity illuminate not only the genesis of a new world-religion but also important facets of Middle Eastern-particularly Iranian-social and cultural shifts in the nineteenth century.

Drawing on the work of Habermas, Giddens, Touraine and Bryan Turner, among others, Juan R. I. Cole considers some of the ways in which Middle Eastern society was affected by five developments central to modernity: the lessening entanglement of the state with religion, the move from absolutism to democracy, the rise of sovereign nation-states, the advent of nationalism, and the women's movement. He explores the Baha'is' positive response to religious toleration, democracy, and greater rights for women and their "utopian realist" critique of nationalism, militant Jacobin secularization, industrialized warfare, and genocide, oppression of the poor and working classes, and xenophobia.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231110815ISBN-10:231110812UPC:9780231110815Book Category:Religion, HistoryBook Subcategory:Baha' i, Middle East, HistorySize:9.03 x 6.06 x 0.61 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCZWQDBBEQ
Juan R. I. Cole is professor of modern Middle Eastern and South Asian history at the University of Michigan.
Publisher: Columbia University Press

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