Browsing by Author "Afework, Zerihun"

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    Anthropological Understanding of Baha'i Believers' Ordinary Lives: The Case of Three Neighborhood in Bole Sub City, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
    (Addis Ababa University, 2017-06) Afework, Zerihun; Tolera, Dr. Assefa
    This thesis tries to deal with some aspects of Baha'i family life and, Baha'i community building core activities kernel for all Baha'i adherents' ordinary lives. A distinctive Baha'i element of family lifo is the critical importance of educating daughters which is more necessary than that of sons if Baha'i parents cannot provide education for both a boy and a girl at a time. Baha'i mothers chief responsibility to educate their children spiritually in early ages; and applying to both parents religious practices up to the age of maturity by Baha'i and Non-Baha'i spouse children are other prominent features in Baha'i family. On the other hand, Baha'i community building core activities are central to the community development taking place in Baha'i. Since qualitative methodology concentrates on rich description, attempts to make sense of, or to interpret phenomena in terms of the meanings people bring to them, and turns the world into a series of representations including key informants interview, focus group discussions, conversations, and observation; it applied to this thesis.