Bibliography: ZWV2T6UM

key	ZWV2T6UM
title	The Baha'i Faith and American Protestantism
author	Stockman, Robert H.
authority control	Robert Stockman
item type	Thesis
publication year	1990
date	1990
abstract note	During the years 1894-1921 American Bahá'ís were predominantly of Protestant background. American Bahá'ís understood their new religion through the lens of their Protestant heritage. They tended to interpret the Bible according to the traditional, common-sense hermeneutic of folk evangelism, and not through the hermeneutic of the Bahá'í scriptures. Bahá'í ideas of social reform were understood in ways resembling Protestant attitudes toward the social gospel. Resistance to systematic organization of the Bahá'í community can be traced to attitudes that characterized many converts. American Bahá's defined a new myth of America that contained many elements of the Protestant ideal of the "redeemer nation." American devotional life centered on Sunday worship, where they sang Bahá'í hymns composed in traditional Christian form. While American Bahá'ís borrowed from Protestantism to supplement and express their beliefs, they did so within the guidelines of their religion.
number pages	[4], 2, 306
publisher	Harvard Divinity School
place	Cambridge, MA
language	English
manual tags	HISTORY; UNITED STATES; SOCIOLOGY; PROTESTANTISM