Bibliography: RI5F7GE2

key	RI5F7GE2
title	Fashioning Belief : The Case of the Baha'i Faith in Northern New Ireland
author	Were, Graeme
authority control	Graeme Were
item type	Journal article
publication year	2007
date	2007-11
publication title	Anthropological Forum (Nedlands, W. Aust.)
abstract note	The paper focuses on the emergence of the Baha'i Faith among the Nalik-speaking people of northern New Ireland in the 1950s. Conversion to the Baha'i Faith instated a new political and religious mode in the community, which encouraged individuals to take responsibility for their own spiritual development, economic welfare, and spiritual development. They fashioned themselves a speople possessed of belief and culture, enecompassing both traditional Nalik and Baha'i religious ideas. The Nalik Baha'is, in effect, considered themselves to be modern Naliks, entering a worldwide community that offered compensations not available to Christian counterparts. The process of self-fashioning took the frm of transformations of personood and property in line with the ideology of possessive individualism. Naliks thouights their religious conversions showed that converts were "proprietors of thmselves," privileged to a new collective life by virtue of their access to new sources of power via the Baha'i Faith.
pages	239-253
issue	3
volume	17
language	English
manual tags	PACIFIC ISLANDS; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; NALIK PEOPLE; NEW IRELAND