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Show 57 Shah in 1852, the persecution persecution Babis some was especially immigrated to other to avoid Therefore, severe. countries, particularly Iraq; and, those who remained dissimulated their religion and went underground in order to continue their lives isolation the was clergy the response of the Babis to the and the As cited all the Babis by opposition of the government, E. Browne, in 1863, after the Baha'i revolution "nearly [were] Baha'i, and the Beyan (Babi holy book), and other sort of Old authoritative This insulation and majority of the people. writings of the Bab, [were] --a (Shoghi Effendi, 1962). in their eyes already an abrogated revelation; Testament, read occasionally for edification, but guide as a of life and belief" no longer (Browne, 1889:518). Thus, the only growing and developing religious movement prior to the Revolution was Baha'i movements structure of (although But neither the Babi the Baha'i movement society and create and establish istrative orders) aimed at being hostility. that of the Baha'is. a were institutionalized. universal religion and In was Moreover, the Baha'i religion society; and, its followers were subject to the change the organizations and admin addition, the Baha'i religion opposed was to new attempted nor· to violence and hated and condemned by persecution. It is held here that this situation is characteristic of Smelser's notion of structural strain; that strain existed in the were structurally conducive movement. for a new society and the conditions value-oriented and/or revolutionary |
