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020			_a0231110804 9780231110808 0231110812 9780231110815
040			_cNew Zealand National Baha'i Reference Library
100			_91558 _aJuan Ricardo Cole
245	1	0	_aModernity and the Millennium : The Genesis of the Bahá'í Faith in the Nineteenth-Century Middle East
260			_aNew York _bColumbia University Press _c1998
300			_axi, 264 p., [12] p. pl. : ill. ; 24 cm
440			_aStudies in the Babi and Baha’i Religions _gAnthony Lee General Editor _v9 _9740
505			_aModernity 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.
520	3		_aContents: Introduction -- Religious Liberty and Separation of Religion and State -- Baha'u'llah and Ottoman Constitutionalism -- "Erelong will the reins of power fall into the hand of the people" : reform in Iran -- Disciplining the State : Peace and International Collective Security -- The Earth Is But One Country -- "Women are as men" : gender in the making of the Baha'i religion -- Conclusion.
650		0	_9119 _aHistory _vBaha'i Faith
650		0	_aNineteenth Century _vBaha'i Faith _zIran _9490
650		0	_aTwentieth Century _vBaha'i Faith _zIran _9222
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