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
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