SEMINAR: Anthropology and Sociology Seminar Series 2014: Professor Farida Fozdar - The Routinization of Charisma: globalisation and The Baha�i Faith
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Anthropology and Sociology Seminar Series 2014: Professor Farida Fozdar - The Routinization of Charisma: globalisation and The Baha�i Faith |
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‘Founding Father’ of sociology Max Weber argued that charismatic authority, necessary at the initial stages of religions, and based on the personal magnetism of a prophetic leader, is not sustainable long-term. He argued that the charisma of the founder must be ‘routinized’ in bureaucratic structures that formalise leadership and organisation. The danger in this process is loss of the ‘spirit’ of the original movement, with an increasing focus on the preservation and replication of formal structures and practices. This paper considers the case study of the Baha’i Faith, a religion founded in the 1860s in Iran, but which quickly mobilised, through a structured program of dissemination through international plans and the movement of “pioneers” (missionaries), to become a worldwide religion whose fundamental orientation is global (it promotes itself as the second most widespread religion in the world). Most recently the process of routinization is evident in the formalising of structures of study and practice in a program called ‘the Ruhi books’ and ‘the institute process’. This paper outlines these developments, noting the ‘elective affinity’ between routinization processes and other globalizing factors.
Speaker(s) |
Professor Farida Fozdar, Future Fellow, Anthropology and Sociology UWA
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Location |
Social Sciences Seminar Room G25
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Contact |
Loretta Baldassar
<[email protected]>
: 6488 7249
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Start |
Fri, 26 Sep 2014 11:00
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End |
Fri, 26 Sep 2014 12:00
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Submitted by |
Emily Buckland <[email protected]>
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Last Updated |
Tue, 23 Sep 2014 11:07
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