TAGS: Charisma; Messianism; Peter Berger; Scholarship

Abstract:

Sociologist Berger identified two underlying messianic and gnostic themes as running through Bahá'í history; his approach is useful in studying other religious movements.

Notes:

First PDF below generated from Microsoft Word version, prepared by Mike Thomas (2026), from the scan of the original.

Motif Research:

Peter Berger and the Bahá'í Faith

Peter Smith

published in Religion

8:2, p. 210–234

1978 Autumn

Download: smith_motif_research_berger.pdf.

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