Bounded Religious Communities' Management of the Challenge of New Media

COLLECTION

Published articles

TITLE

Bounded Religious Communities' Management of the Challenge of New Media: Bahá'í Negotiation with the Internet

AUTHOR 1

Heidi A. Campbell

AUTHOR 2

Drake Fulton

DATE_THIS

2012

VOLUME

ed. Marie Gillespie et al.

TITLE_PARENT

Social Media and Religious Change

PAGE_RANGE

185-200

ISBN_THIS

3110270498

ISBN13_THIS

978-3-11-027048-8

PUB_THIS

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

ABSTRACT

An outsiders' perspective of the Bahá'í approach to fluid, open networks in the face of its bounded social structure and its system of hierarchical gatekeepers. Includes overview of the Bahá'í Internet Agency.

NOTES

Article extracted from complete book, which was posted by its editor to academia.edu.

Note: the following article is informed by the writings and views of Juan Cole. While accurate, they are also somewhat one-sided, e.g. in Cole's and this article's perception that the Bahá'í Administration actively suppresses dissent. By contrast, the Baha'i Library Online has never been asked to remove any item for doctrinal reasons. (-J.W., 2023)