"Modernity and the Millennium" is the first book to chart
responses in the Muslim Middle East to modernity through an
examination of the evolution of the Baha'i faith--a millenarian
movement led by the nineteenth-century Iranian prophet Baha'u'llah
("the Glory of God"). This volume illuminates the complexity and
ambiguity that characterized the changing relationship of
Baha'u'llah and his followers to modernity, considered as a
transnational and fluid political and cultural field of
contestation. The insights presented here into these responses to
modernity illuminate not only the genesis of a new world-religion
but also important facets of Middle Eastern-particularly
Iranian-social and cultural shifts in the nineteenth century.
Drawing on the work of Habermas, Giddens, Touraine and Bryan
Turner, among others, Juan R. I. Cole considers some of the ways in
which Middle Eastern society was affected by five developments
central to modernity: the lessening entanglement of the state with
religion, the move from absolutism to democracy, the rise of
sovereign nation-states, the advent of nationalism, and the women's
movement. He explores the Baha'is' positive response to religious
toleration, democracy, and greater rights for women and their
"utopian realist" critique of nationalism, militant Jacobin
secularization, industrialized warfare, and genocide, oppression of
the poor and working classes, and xenophobia.
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