Studies in Modern Religions, Religious Movements and the Bābī-Bahā’ī Faiths

Sharon, Moshe. Studies in Modern Religions, Religious Movements and the Bābī-Bahā’ī Faiths. Leiden: Brill, 2004. First edition. Octavo. x, 329, (5)pp. Index and bibliography. Pictorial buckram, lavender spine lettered in white & black A near fine, but ex-library copy with a minimal rubber library stamp on title page and at bottom edge of text block.

In this book leading scholars contribute comprehensive studies of the religious movements in the late 18th and 19th centuries: the Hassidic movements in Judaism, the Mormon religion, in Christianity, and the Bābī-Bahā’ī faiths in Shī’te Islam. The studies, introduced by the editor’s analysis of the underlying common source of this religious activity, lead the reader into a rich world of messianism, millenniarism and eschatological thought fueling the intense modern developments in the three major monotheistic religions. (Publisher)

Contents: Preliminary Material /; Moshe Sharon –; New Religions and Religious Movements–The Common Heritage /; Moshe Sharon –; On Prophecy and Early Hasidism /; Moshe Idel –; Rabbi Kook and His Sources: From Kabbalistic Historiosophy to National Mysticism /; Yoni Garb –; Millennialist Dreams and Apocalyptic Nightmares /; Moojan Momen –; Millenarianism and Nineteenth-Century New Religions: The Mormon Example /; Grant Underwood –; Critique of Pure Gematry /; Meir Buzaglo –; The Eschatology of Globalization: The Multiple-Messiahship of Bahāʾuʾllāh Revisited /; Christopher Buck –; The Bābī-State Conflict in Māzandarān: Background, Analysis and Review of Sources /; Siyamak Zabihi-Moghaddam –; The Azālī-Bahāʾī Crisis of September 1867 /; Juan R.I. Cole –; Ottoman Reform Movements and the Bahāʾī Faith, 1860’s-1920’s /; Necati Alkan –; “I Never Understood Any of this From ʿAbbās Effendi”: Muḥammad ʿAbduh’s Knowledge of the Bahāʾī Teachings and His Friendship with ʿAbdu’l-Bahāʾ ʿAbbās /; William McCants –; Bahāʾī and the Holy Land: Religiogenesis and Shoghi Effendi’s The Faith of Bahāʾuʾllāh: A World Religion /; Zaid Lundberg –; Index /; Moshe Sharon –; Studies in the History of Religions Numen Book Series /; Moshe Sharon. (OCLC)

Volume 104 of Brill’s “Numen Book Series: Studies in the History of Religions.” near fine. Hardcover. (52836) $75