Bibliography: FS8K75EK

key	FS8K75EK
title	Der Bahá’í-Glaube als Weltreligion : 100 Jahre vdeutsche Religionsgeschichte : Ein Entwurf
author	Dehghani, Sasha
authority control	Sasha Dehghani
item type	Journal article
publication year	2020
date	2020
publication title	Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte (Leiden)
abstract note	For a century the Bahá’í Faith has been classified, within the German academy, as a world religion. This article highlights the major historical milestones in this process of recognition. The process was initiated on the eve of the First World War by the two Jewish Germanophone orientalists Goldziher and Vambery. In the inter-war period, the categorization of this faith as a world religion – rather than a sect of Islam, as it had once been viewed – was further propelled by academics outside the fĳeld of theology and religious studies, such as the natural scientist Auguste Forel. It was only after the catastrophic experience of World War II, a period when the German Bahá’í community evinced a spirit of resilience in the face of Nazi oppression, that scholars in the field of Christian theology and religious studies, such as Heiler, Mensching and Benz, who represented the school of Religionswissenschaft des Verstehens, began to adopt the classification of the Bahá’ís as new world religion.
pages	260-285
issue	3
volume	72
place	Leiden
language	German,
manual tags	RELIGION; HISTORY; CLASSIFICATION; GERMANY