Bibliography: BIB22859

web link	bahai-library.com/bibliography/BIB22859
reference type	Book
title	Bahá'í Lore
author	Piff, David Michael
authority control	David Piff; Michael
year	2000
date	2000
publisher	George Ronald
place published	Oxford
issue	7.
abstract	Investigation of unofficial oral lore in the Bahá'í community, and what such lore indicates about the concerns of the Bahá'í community. Contents include: Bahá'í historiography and Bahá'í hearsay -- Bahá'í hearsay : literary context and community attitudes -- Bahá'í community discourse regarding selected doctrines and practices of the Bahá'í religion -- Unofficial lore about covenant-breakers and enemies of the Bahá'í religion -- The lore of Bahá'í proselytism and conversion -- The lore of Bahá'í central figures and senior institutions -- Bahá'í and the world in popular lore -- Catastrophism in Bahá'í popular lore -- Celebrities and the Cause of God -- Functions of unofficial Bahá'í lore. Included is a long compilation of unofficial lore, a coded list of informants with statistics about the informant group. The author reviews the purposes of lore and hearsay, the relationship of official/unofficial and elite/popular notions of religion, the sociology of new religious movements, and the thematic congruence between official and unofficial teachings.
notes	Cover title could be read as: Unofficial Bahá'í Lore.
language	English
keywords	HEARSAY; RUMOR; LORE
number of pages	v, [3], 584
call number	BP378 .P54 2000 (BWC - COLLINS)