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Key	BIB36841
Reference type	Book
Title	Being Human : Baha’i Perspectives on Islam, Modernity and Peace
Series title	Studies in the Bábí and Bahá'í Religions
Author	Lawson, Todd
Year	2019
Publisher	Kalimát Press
Place published	Los Angeles, CA
Issue	7.
ISBN	9780578225463
Abstract	This book untangles a paradox. The Baha’i Faith claims to accept the Prophet Muhammad as Messenger of God and the Seal of the Prophets. But, Baha’is insist that their religion is a new and independent revelation from God that stands distinct and apart from Islam and Islamic practice. Todd Lawson attempts to understand how such apparent “cognitive dissonance” may be resolved. He explains the deep connection between the Baha’i Faith and Islam, and how this relationship is one among many in what must remain the continuing, and perhaps endless, attempts to mine the Baha’i scriptures for all their inexhaustible implications. Being Human seeks to reconcile many contradictions and demonstrate how Baha’i teachings point the way toward peace and the reconciliation of all world religions.
Notes	The four chapters were originally published as separate articles: Chapter 1: originally published as "The Bahá'í Traditions: The Return of Joseph and the Peaceable Kingdom," in Fighting Words: Religion, Violence, and the Interpretation of Sacred Texts, ed. John Renard (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012), 135-157. Chapter 2: originally published as "Being Human: The Shaykhiyya," The Bahá'í Studies Review 18 (2012), 83-94. Cahtper 3: originally published as "Seeing Double: The Covenant and the Tablet of Ahmad," in The Bahá'í Faith and the World's Religions, ed. Moojan Momen (Oxford: George Ronald, 2005), 39-87. Chapter 4: originally published as "Globalization and the Hidden Words," in Bahá'í and Globalisation, ed. Margit Warburg et al. (Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2005), 35-53.
Language	English
Keywords	HUMANITY; ISLAM; MODERNITY; PEACE
Number of pages	xxi, 172, [1]
Series volume	25

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