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- catalog abstract ""Modernity 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. The insights presented here 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 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'i response to religious toleration, democracy, and greater rights for women and their "utopian realist" critique of nationalism, militant Jacobin secularization, industrialized warfare, genocide, oppression of the poor and working classes, and xenophobia."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Modernity & the millennium".
- catalog contributor b10700186.
- catalog coverage "Middle East Religion 19th century.".
- catalog created "c1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "c1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1998.".
- catalog description ""Modernity 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. The insights presented here 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 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'i response to religious toleration, democracy, and greater rights for women and their "utopian realist" critique of nationalism, militant Jacobin secularization, industrialized warfare, genocide, oppression of the poor and working classes, and xenophobia."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-251) and index.".
- catalog description "Religious liberty and separation of religion and state -- Baha'u'llah and Ottoman constitutionalism -- "Erelong will the reins of power fall into the hands 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.".
- catalog extent "xi, 264 p., [12] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0231110804 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0231110812 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies in the Bábí and Baháʹí religions ; v. 9.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "c1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Columbia University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Middle East Religion 19th century.".
- catalog subject "297.9/3/09034 21".
- catalog subject "BP330 .C64 1998".
- catalog subject "Bahai Faith History 19th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Religious liberty and separation of religion and state -- Baha'u'llah and Ottoman constitutionalism -- "Erelong will the reins of power fall into the hands 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.".
- catalog title "Modernity & the millennium".
- catalog title "Modernity and the millennium : the genesis of the Baha'i faith in the nineteenth-century Middle East / Juan R.I. Cole.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".