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Key	BIB28592
Reference type	Journal Article
Title	Züge der Hagiographie der Bahā’ī
Journal	Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft
Author	Beinhauer-Köhler, Bärbel
Year	2002
Issue	1
Volume	10
Abstract	"A principle of the Bahā'ī Religion is the rejection of human salvation by the authorities, especially a professional priesthood. In terms of religious history, the Bahā'ī stand in the tradition of religions with a pronounced veneration of saints and hagiography, and so one can ask whether they have not developed a counterpart, especially since they have a rich biographical literature. In fact, testimonies relating to the early days of the Bahā'is have recorded the character of Martyriology the name, manner, place and date of death of an apostate of Islam. Around 1915, ('Abdu'l-Bahā wrote a collection of exemplary lives of early Bahā'is from the environment of Bahā'u'llah in Akka, which, analogous to the hagiographies of other religions, are intended to provide religious orientation and the depicted people are primarily characterized by a pronounced light metaphor transfigured in the Twelver Shiite tradition. With the spread of the religion to Western countries, new features can be found in biographies created there: Formally and methodically, one is increasingly oriented towards scientific historical standards; in terms of content, there is an emphasis on the connection between selected figures from the Bahā'u'llahs immediate family and descendants to a spiritual level close to God in a terminology borrowed from Christianity. For the group of people mentioned, a visitation ritual [pilgrimage] has also begun to develop on Mount Carmel in Haifa. So it can be assumed that the Bahā'īs have a need for a personal connection to the source of salvation in their religion, in addition to the orientation towards God and his religion-founding revealer, also through an orientation towards outstanding, exemplary secondary figures who, in the religious-scientific sense, definitely have an intermediary position between the divine and human spheres.
Language	German
Keywords	HAGIOGRAPHY; SAINTS; HOLY ONES
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1515/0034.3
Pages	3–18
Legal note	11.
File attachments	internal-pdf://4059020108/Beinhauer-Kohle - Zuge_Hagiographie_Bahai.pdf

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