Papers by shahla mehrgani
In this thesis I focus attention on the Baha’i Process of community-building within its periodic ... more In this thesis I focus attention on the Baha’i Process of community-building within its periodic context. Towards this aim, I answer the question of how Baha’is translate the word of God into practice to construct their social reality. This project takes a constructionist approach and applies Peter Berger’s conceptual framework to interpret Baha’i scriptures. This study also takes an ethnographic methodology that includes semi-structured interviews as well as observations to study the lived experience of the Baha’is in Sheffield. I demonstrate that the stability of the Baha’i community-building efforts was maintained from 1934 up until 1996. Nonetheless, since 1996, radical shifts have happened in the Baha’i community, regarding the aims and the means of the community building. In this research I have identified the shifting period of the community-building among the Baha’is as deconstruction. The study verifies the changes in community-building have been radical enough to change th...
The International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society
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Papers by shahla mehrgani