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The Bahá'í: The Religious Construction of a Global Identity
By (author) Michael McMullen
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The BahÃ’à Faith is one of the fastest growing, but least studied, of the world’s religions. Adherents view themselves as united by a universal belief that transcends national boundaries. Michael McMullen examines how the BahÃ’à develop and maintain this global identity. Taking the BahÃ’à community in Atlanta, Georgia, as a case in point, his book is the first to comprehensively examine the tenets of this little-understood faith. McMullen notes that, to the BahÃ’Ã, Buddha, Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed are all divinely sent teachers of ‘the Truth’, whose messages conform to the needs of their individual cultures and historical periods. But religion-which draws from the teaching of BahÃ’u’llÃh, a nineteenth-century Persian-encourages its members to think of themselves as global citizens. It also seeks to establish unity among its members through adherence to a BahÃ’à worldview. By examining the Atlanta BahÃ’à community, McMullen shows how this global identity is interpreted locally. He discusses such topics as: the organizational structure and authority relations in the BahÃ’à “Administrative Orderâ€; BahÃ’à evangelicalism; and the social boundaries between BahÃ’Ãs and the wider culture.
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Publisher | Rutgers University Press
Published date | 1 Aug 2000
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 272
Dimensions | 235 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 482g
ISBN | 978-0-8135-2836-6
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BISAC | religion / baha'i
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