Der Bahá’í-Glaube als Weltreligion: 100 Jahre deutsche Religionsgeschichte: Ein Entwurf
For a century the Bahá’í Faith has been classified, within the German academy, as a world religion. This article highlights the major historical milestones in this process of recognition. The process was initiated on the eve of the First World War by the two Jewish Germanophone orientalists Goldzihe...
| Subtitles: | Themenheft: Die Bahá’í-Religion |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | German |
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Brill
[2020]
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| In: |
Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte
Year: 2020, Volume: 72, Issue: 3, Pages: 260-285 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Germany
/ Science of Religion
/ Baha'i faith
/ World religion
/ Intellectual history 1919-2019
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| RelBib Classification: | AA Study of religion AZ New religious movements BG World religions BJ Islam |
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| Summary: | For a century the Bahá’í Faith has been classified, within the German academy, as a world religion. This article highlights the major historical milestones in this process of recognition. The process was initiated on the eve of the First World War by the two Jewish Germanophone orientalists Goldziher and Vambery. In the inter-war period, the categorization of this faith as a world religion - rather than a sect of Islam, as it had once been viewed - was further propelled by academics outside the field of theology and religious studies, such as the natural scientist Auguste Forel. It was only after the catastrophic experience of World War II, a period when the German Bahá’í community evinced a spirit of resilience in the face of Nazi oppression, that scholars in the field of Christian theology and religious studies, such as Heiler, Mensching and Benz, who represented the school of Religionswissenschaft des Verstehens, began to adopt the classification of the Bahá’ís as new world religion. |
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| ISSN: | 1570-0739 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700739-07203004 |