Naslov
Religious Pluralism and New Religious Movements – Example of Baháʹ í Religious Community

Autori
Ančić, Branko

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Skup
REVACERN Conference 2008

Mjesto i datum
Szeged, Mađarska, 24.04.2008. - 26.04.2008

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Baháʹ í religion; religious pluralism; new religious movements

Sažetak
In last five decades Bahá'í Faith had increasing and major change in its leadership, organization, demographic base, and distribution. Bahá'í Faith is now a distinctive and independent religious movement and perceive it self as a new world religion. After 1890 began the expansion of Bahá'í in America, Canada, Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. Although Bahá'í believers were small in numbers their process of organization and its further actions influenced significantly on Bahá'í religion. During 1950s and 1960 Bahá'í Faith expanded on the countries of the “ Third World” . With this expansion significant change in the social base of religion occurred, special when the expansion took its whisk in India, South America, Pacific and some parts of sub-Saharan Africa (Smith and Momen, 1989). According to the Bahá'í census in 2006 there is approximately 150 followers.In this work author has contextualized Bahá'í religion within scientific research of new religious movements,

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija

Napomena
Predavanje i rad pod naslovom Religious Pluralism and New Religious Movements – Example of Baháʹ í Religious Community bio je prezentiran na REVACERN-ovoj konferenciji u travnju 2008. Nastavak ovog rada i njegova nadopuna pod naslovom BAHÁ'Í RELIGION AS A NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT? održana je na REVACERN-ovom skupu mladih istraživača koji su sudjelovali u programu razmjene u Szegedu u 8 mjesecu 2008.

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