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key	2A4PBXWE
title	Die Bahà'ì Geloof in Suid-Afrika : 'n godsdienswetenskaplike studie = The Bahà'ì Religion in South Africa: A Religious Study
author	Schulz, Johannes Joagim Christoffel
item type	Thesis
publication year	1995
date	1995
abstract note	The Baha'i Faith is a new independent world religion and is vastly unknown to the South African public. The purpose of this qualitative research (based on the phenomenological method) is to describe the Baha'i phenomenon in an unbiased, non-judgemental way so that the own South African Baha`i experience is registered. The Baha'i history is discussed first in order to place this faith in its own religious framework and to explain its origin and development worldwide as well as in South Africa. It establishes the message of the Covenant and shows how Baha'is are proclaming the unity idea and the message of Baha'u'llah via the establishment of the Administrative order. Central Baha'i concepts concerning the spiritual dimension of the Baha'i faith are explored. It is expanded via unstructured interviews with carefully selected participants in order to let Baha'is explain their own administration, laws and regulations, concepts about God and their escatology as well as their anthropology and history. This is done in accordance to the central themes so that a total picture of the Baha'i Faith could be conceptualised. It ends with a discussion of the Baha'i world state as the fulfillment of the new heaven and earth prophecy. Different conclusions are made from these data. It shows how the Baha'is are using Baha'u'llah's message as the key in order to lead man to the establishment of a new modern world culture. This culture will be the fulfillment of the Baha'i strategy and motto of unity in diversity and serves as the Baha'i answer to the modern day problems. The thesis ends with the South African expectations of the future.
number pages	[10], v, 493
publisher	University of South Africa
place	Pretoria
language	Afrikaans,
type	Doctorate
manual tags	RELIGION; SOUTH AFRICA; SOCIOLOGY; PHENOMENOLOGY

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