Anthropological Understanding of Baha'i Believers' Ordinary Lives: The Case of Three Neighborhood in Bole Sub City, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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2017-06
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Addis Ababa University
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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.
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informants interview, focus group discussions, conversations, and observation; it applied to this thesis.