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Becoming a Baha'i: Discourse and Social Networks in an American Religious Movement

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Wyman, June R

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TextProducer: Washington, DC : Catholic University of America 1985Subject(s):

INDIVIDUALISM

Abstract: The aim of the study was to examine how American Baha'is interpret their religion and how those understandings shape their social interaction. A cultural analysis of these materials showed that American Baha'is interpret the Baha'i religion primarily as a narrative for culturally constituting the individual.

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The aim of the study was to examine how American Baha'is interpret their religion and how those understandings shape their social interaction. A cultural analysis of these materials showed that American Baha'is interpret the Baha'i religion primarily as a narrative for culturally constituting the individual.