Citizens of the World: A History and Sociology of the Bahaʹis from a Globalisation PerspectiveCitizens of the World deals with the Baha is and their religion. While covering the historical development in sufficient detail to serve as a general monograph on Baha i, emphasis is laid on examining contemporary Baha i, with the Danish Baha i community as a recurrent case. The book discusses Baha i religious texts, rituals, economy, everyday life, demographic development, mission strategies, leadership, and international activism in analyses based on primary material, such as interview studies among the Baha is, fieldwork data from the Baha i World Centre in Israel, and field trips around the world. The approach is a combination of history of religions and sociology of religion within a theoretical framework of religion and globalisation. Several general topics in the study of new religions are covered. The book contributes to the theoretical study of globalisation by proposing a new model for analysing globalisation and transnational religions. |
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Contents
Chapter One When the Global Meets the Local | 1 |
Chapter Two Approaches to Babi and Bahai Studies | 32 |
Chapter Three Development of a Globalisation | 76 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Citizens of the World: A History and Sociology of the Bahaʹis from a Globalisation Perspective Volume 106 of Numen book series, ISSN 1570-9434 Volume 106 of Studies in the history of religions, ISSN 0169-8834 |
| Author | Margit Warburg |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Brill, 2006 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Jun 12, 2009 |
| ISBN | 9004143734, 9789004143739 |
| Length | 592 pages |
| Subjects | › Religion / Comparative Religion Social Science / Islamic Studies |
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