TY - BOOK AU - The Dialectics of the Religious and the Secular: Studies on the Future of Religion TI - Bahá'í Religion as a New Religious Movement? PY - 2014/// PB - EJ Brill N1 - DOI: 10.1163/9789004263147_012 N2 - In last five decades Bahá'í Faith had increasing and major change in its leadership, organization, demographic base, and distribution. Bahá'í Faith is now a distinctive and independent religious movement and perceive it self as a new world religion. According to Britannica Book of the Year and World Christian Encyclopedia Bahá'í Faith is the second most widely spread religion in the world, after Christianity. This article deals with the development of Bahá'í religion in general, seeing it from the perspective ov NRM´s and specifically the development of Bahá'í religion in Central and Eastern Europe ER -