Bibliography: BIB35986

Key	BIB35986
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
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