Studies in Modern Religions, Religious Movements, and the Bábí-Bahá'í Faiths

CONTENTS

Preface and Acknowledgements ........................................................... ix

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND MODERN RELIGIONS

New Religions and Religious Movements: The Common Heritage  ............................. 3
     Moshe Sharon

PART ONE: PROPHECY, MESSIANISM, AND THE MILLENNIUM

On Prophecy and Early Hasidism ......................................................... 41
     Moshe Idel

Rabbi Kook and His Sources: From Kabbalistic Historiosophy to National Mysticism ....... 77
     Yoni Garb

Millennialist Dreams and Apocalyptic Nightmares ........................................ 97
     Moojan Momen

Millenarianism and Nineteenth-Century New Religions: The Mormon Example ............... 117
     Grant Underwood

Critique of Pure Gematry .............................................................. 127
     Meir Buzaglo

PART TWO: THE BÁBÍ-BAHÁ'Í VENTURE

The Eschatology of Globalization: The Multiple Messiahship of Bahá'u'lláh Revisited ... 143
     Christopher Buck

The Bábí-State Conflict in Mázandarán: Background, Analysis and Review of Sources ..... 179
     Siyamak Zabihi-Moghaddam

The Azálí-Bahá'í Crisis of September, 1867 ............................................ 227
     Juan Cole

Ottoman Reform Movements and the Bahá'í Faith, 1860s-1920s............................. 253
     Necati Alkan

"I Never Understood Any of This from 'Abbás Effendi": Muhammad 'Abduh's 
   Knowledge of the Bahá'í Teachings and His Friendship with 'Abdu'l-Bahá ............. 275
     William F. McCants

Bahá'í and the Holy Land: Religiogenesis and Shoghi Effendi’s 
   The Faith of Bahá'u'lláh: A World Religion ......................................... 299
     Zaid Lundberg

Index ................................................................................. 319