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key	H5Z2VZMT
title	How Baha'ism Travelled from the East to the West : (Ideological Evolution of the Neo-Universalist Religious Doctrine
author	Melikova, Leyla
authority control	Leyla Melikova
item type	Journal article
publication year	2013
date	2013
publication title	The Caucasus and Globalization (Sweden)
abstract note	FROM THE PUBLISHED ABSTRACT: "The author places the ideological evolution of the Baha’i faith as a religious doctrine in the context of the social and cultural trends of Western neoliberal ideolology and globalism. She classifies this religious teaching, born in Iran in the mid-19th century (1844) out of the Shi'a-Imamite messianic doctrine and fully developed by 1863, as a neo-universalist religious concept, the moral and ethical values of which did not offer sensational revelations, but followed the religious provisions of other faiths. Her analysis of the phenomenological aspects and quintessence of Baha’ism in the context of historical conditions and the factors that made it possible, the Baha’is religious identity, their relations with the environment, society, and the state reveals the contradictory and utopian nature of this faith." This article is, in fact, an attack on the Bahá'í Faith, in the guise of academic research, from several different angles, giving credence to the oddest and wildest claims against the religion from economic, political, religious, colonialist, and conspiratorial angles. The author draws the most bizarre conclusion: "Unwilling, or afraid, to look for the secret meanings that Baha’ism probably contained, its leaders took it to the other extreme: banalities so loved by the masses that made Baha’ism an instrument of spiritual-religious globalization for translating the aims and tasks of Western globalism into the terms of mass religious consciousness."
pages	115-130
issue	3-4
volume	7
language	English
manual tags	CONTROVERSIAL; ANTI-BAHA'I; AZERBAIJAN

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