Bibliography 2: #BIB35950

Key	BIB35950
Reference type	Journal Article
Title	The Impact of Fear and Authority on Islamic and Baha’i Modernisms in the Late Modern Age : A Liberal Perspective
Journal	Religions : Open Access Journal of Theology
Author	Nash, Geoffrey P.
Year	2015
Date	2015
Epub date2	21 September 2015
Volume	6
ISSN	2077-1444
Abstract	Fear of the late modern world has been a major factor in the rise of authoritarian and violent religio-political movements. This article draws on Anthony Giddens and Charles Taylor’s conceptualisation of the self in the secular age, and applies this to two modernist religious trends originating in the East in the later nineteenth century in the context of western global expansion. Endeavouring to rise to the challenge of accommodating Islam to modernity by adopting the tools of rationality and encouraging independent inquiry, Islamic Modernism has become increasingly embattled. The Baha’i faith, a movement that incorporates similar perspectives and also developed out of an Islamic context, proposes a theophanic transformation rather than renewal through reform of Islam. After a period of infusion of a progressive catalytic impulse into the Middle East, the Baha’i faith performed its own recalibration of modernism, enunciating apocalyptic denunciation of the modern world similar to that found in Muslim revivalist trends. The article ends by making some suggestions for continuation of a progressive religious approach in late modernity.
Language	English
Keywords	ISLAM; MODERNISM; TRADITION; RATIONALISM; SECULARISM; SELF; FEAR; ALIENATION; AUTHORITARIANISM; LIBERALISM; CONTROVERSIAL
URL	http://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/6/3/1125/pdf
DOI	10.3390/rel6031125
Pages	1125–1136
Legal note	11.
File attachments	internal-pdf://1118724906/Nash - Baha'i Modernism - Religions-06-1125–11.pdf

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