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Author: Anthony Lee
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Volume: 39
Dimensions:
Width: 16.00cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 24.00cm
Weight: 0.646kg
ISBN: 9789004206847
ISBN 10: 9004206841
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 28 October 2011
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Lee has written an interesting study that casts light on both the specificities of the Baha'i faith and the early mission and history of what was a new religious tradition in Africa. For scholars interested in the study of New Religious Movements and New Age, Lee's investigation offers both inspiration and methodological insights for how to study the spread and establishment of a new religion. From this point of view, many scholars may benefit from reading Lee's interesting and well-written study of the establishment of the Baha'i faith in Africa. - Goran Larsson (UNiversity of Gothenburg) in: Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review, Issue 1 2012
It is rather an exciting, well-written and thoroughly researched study that discusses and provides an intriguing insight into the establishment of a new religion in Africa. Lee's book could easily be read as a study that belongs to the field of the history of religions, but it is also a research project that includes research traditions and methods found within the fields of missionary studies, colonial studies and more broadly African studies. Goran Larsson, University of Gothenburg, Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review, Volume 3, Issue 1 One of the interesting aspects of the Baha'i Faith is the manner in which it has spread to all parts of the world and gained adherents among a wide variety of cultures, and yet this aspect of the religion has not been studied much.This is the first academic book to examine the spread of the Baha'i Faith to Africa. Moojan Momen, United Kingdom, Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions, Vol. 17, No. 2 This monograph is the first book-length study of the Baha'i faith in Africa. As such, it is an important achievement and will hopefully engender further indepth research. Thomas G. Kirsch, University of Konstanz, Germany, Journal of Religion in Africa 46
Author Information
Anthony A Lee, Ph.D. (2007), Lecturer at the History Department at UCLA, is General Editor of the academic series Studies in the Babi and Baha'i Religions (Kalimat Press) and has published in African history and African American history.
