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008			180319s2018 nyu b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2018012145
020			_a9781472463609 (hardback : alk. paper)
020			_z9781315595559 (ebook)
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC
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050	0	0	_aBL695 _b.M56 2018
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245	0	0	_aMinority religions in Europe and the Middle East : _bmapping and monitoring / _cedited by George D. Chryssides.
260			_aNew York : _bRoutledge, _c2018.
300			_a252 pages 24 cm. index
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
440			_91557 _aRoutledge Inform Series on Minority Religions and Spiritual Movements
500			_aContains chapter: Manocha, Kishan and Saba Tahzib (2018). Religion, social change and responding to persecution – the case of the Bahá’í community in Iran. Minority Religions in Europe and the Middle East: Mapping and Monitoring. George D. Chryssides (editor) . Abingdon, Routledge. 203-214 The Bahá’í community in Iran, that country’s largest religious minority, has been subjected to systematic, state-sponsored persecution since the 1979 Revolution. This chapter presents its response to this persecution as a model worthy of further reflection, in that it raises a number of valuable questions. It asks how, in the face of a sustained campaign to eliminate their community, the Bahá’ís have been able to eschew the mantle of victimhood and prevent the seeds of hatred from taking root in their collective consciousness. The authors explore why the Bahá’ís have refused to respond with violence or become involved in partisan politics, and how the teachings of the Bahá’í Faith have informed their response. In addressing these questions, the chapter seeks to provide insights not only into how religious minorities can maintain their integrity and continue to flourish even under bitter persecution, but also into the role of religion in social change at a time when religion is the focus of much debate around the world. It argues that there is great value in analysing the different conceptions of religion that exist in society and the power that these conceptions have to engender: on the one hand, there is ferocious, bloody persecution, while, on the other hand, there exists commitment to long-term social transformation, even under the bleakest of circumstances.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
650		0	_aMinority Religions _91376
650		0	_aTwentieth Century _vBaha'i Faith _zIran _9222
700			_aGeorge D. Chryssides _b1945- _d1945- _eEditor _91957
856			_3PDF _uhttps://library.abs.org.nz/cgi-bin/koha/opac-retrieve-file.pl?id=f36db4fab0d25f7db9557d4fa9696626 _yReligion, social change and responding to persecution – the case of the Bahá’í community in Iran.
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