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Author:   Brendan McNamara
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   168
Weight:   0.498kg
ISBN:  

9789004440104

ISBN 10:   9004440100
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   22 October 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Contents Acknowledgments 1 Introduction 1 East Comes West 2 'Abdu'l-Baha and the Baha'i Faith 3 Documenting Missionary Travels 4 Protestant Discourse 5 Recovering the Obscure 6 Sources and Materials 7 Orientalism 8 Forgetting the Past 9 A New World 10 The View from Where 2 Religious and Intellectual Milieu 1 Comparative Religion 2 Foundations 3 Joseph Estlin Carpenter 4 Political and Cultural Resonance 5 The Cult of Omar 6 Narratives Subjoined 7 Conclusion 3 Establishing Parameters for East-West Encounters: Chicago and Oxford 1 Filter and Grid 2 Third International Congress for the History of Religions 3 Oxford 4 Cheyne's Cosmology 5 Conclusion 4 The Curious: the Celtic Dimension to Pre-First World War Religious Discourse 1 Dean's Yard 2 Tudor Pole's Quest 3 The Celtic Revival 4 Discovering 'Abdu'l-Baha 5 Conclusion 5 New Protestant Theodocies: R.J. Campbell, the Disturber of Our Comfortable Peace 1 The New Theology 2 One of the Great Let Downs of the World 3 Uncharted Dimensions of Early 20th Century Protestant Discourse 4 Implications for the Religious Field 5 Conclusion 6 'Abdu'l-Baha in Britain 1 What Was Understood 2 In London 3 At Westminster 4 Indirect Admonishment 5 Missionary Reaction 6 Conclusion 7 The Elision of Memory: Forgetting Aspects of Early Twentieth Century Discourse 1 Now Time and Afterlife 2 A Dialectic of Rejection and Fascination 3 Religion and War 4 Religious Reformers at War 5 Conclusion Appendix 1: Significant Baha'i Dates Appendix 2: Arabic Notation in The Christian Commonwealth Appendix 3: Tudor Pole, Campbell and the Glastonbury Cup Bibliography Index

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Brendan McNamara, Ph.D. (2017), University College Cork is a lecturer in the study of religions at that university. He has published journal articles, a book chapter and edited Connections; Early Links Between the Baha'i Faith and Ireland (Tusker Keyes, 2007).

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