The Reception of 'Abdu'l-Bahá in Britain: East Comes West
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1 "East Comes West" -- 2 ʿAbdu'l-Bahá and the Baháʾí Faith -- 3 Documenting Missionary Travels -- 4 Protestant Discourse -- 5 Recovering the Obscure -- 6 Sources and Materials -- 7 Orientalism -- 8 Forgetting the Past -...
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| Language: | English |
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Boston
BRILL
2020
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Series/Journal: | Numen Book Ser.
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9789004440104 |
| Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1 "East Comes West" -- 2 ʿAbdu'l-Bahá and the Baháʾí Faith -- 3 Documenting Missionary Travels -- 4 Protestant Discourse -- 5 Recovering the Obscure -- 6 Sources and Materials -- 7 Orientalism -- 8 Forgetting the Past -- 9 A New World -- 10 The View from Where -- Chapter 2 Religious and Intellectual Milieu -- 1 Comparative Religion -- 2 Foundations -- 3 Joseph Estlin Carpenter -- 4 Political and Cultural Resonance -- 5 The Cult of Omar -- 6 Narratives Subjoined -- 7 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Establishing Parameters for East-West Encounters: Chicago and Oxford -- 1 Filter and Grid -- 2 Third International Congress for the History of Religions -- 3 Oxford -- 4 Cheyne's Cosmology -- 5 Conclusion -- Chapter 4 The Curious: the Celtic Dimension to Pre-First World War Religious Discourse -- 1 Dean's Yard -- 2 Tudor Pole's Quest -- 3 The Celtic Revival -- 4 Discovering ʿAbdu'l-Bahá -- 5 Conclusion -- Chapter 5 New Protestant Theodocies: R.J. Campbell,"the Disturber of Our Comfortable Peace" -- 1 The New Theology -- 2 One of the Great Let Downs of the World -- 3 Uncharted Dimensions of Early 20th Century Protestant Discourse -- 4 Implications for the Religious Field -- 5 Conclusion -- Chapter 6 ʿAbdu'l-Bahá in Britain -- 1 What Was Understood -- 2 In London -- 3 At Westminster -- 4 Indirect Admonishment -- 5 Missionary Reaction -- 6 Conclusion -- Chapter 7 The Elision of Memory: Forgetting Aspects of Early Twentieth Century Discourse -- 1 Now Time and Afterlife -- 2 A Dialectic of Rejection and Fascination -- 3 Religion and War -- 4 Religious Reformers at War -- 5 Conclusion -- Appendix 1 Significant Baháʾí Dates -- Appendix 2 Arabic Notation in The Christian Commonwealth -- Appendix 3 Tudor Pole, Campbell and the Glastonbury Cup -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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| ISBN: | 9004440356 |