Bibliography: BIB27882

web link	bahai-library.com/bibliography/BIB27882
reference type	Book
title	Theory of Religious Cycles : Tradition, Modernity and the Bahá'í Faith
series title	Value Inquiry Book Series Contemporary Russian Philosophy
author	Sergeev, Mikhail
authority control	Mikhail Sergeev
year	2015
publisher	Brill-Rodopi
place published	Leiden ; Boston
issue	7.
ISBN	9789004300033 (pbk. alk. paper)
abstract	Sergeev offers a new interpretation of the Soviet period of Russian history as a phase within the religious evolution of humankind by developing a theory of religious cycles, which he applies to modernity and all the major world faiths. Sergeev argues that in the course of its evolution religion passes through six common phases - formative, otrhodox, classical, reformist, critical, and post-critical. Modernity, which was started by the European Enlightenment, represents the critical phase of Christianity, a systemic crisis that could be overcome with the appearance of new religious movements such as the Bahá'í Faith, which offers a spiritual extension of the modern worldview.
notes	LCCN 2015024966 Foreword by Leonard Swidler. Includes bibliographical references and index.
language	English
keywords	RELIGION; PHILOSOPHY; MODERNITY; TRADITION; CYCLES
number of pages	xiii, [1], 161
series volume	v.284