“This Is a Progression, Not Conversion”: Narratives of First-Generation Bahá’ís

This paper discusses the concept of religious conversion in Bahá’í Faith through narratives first-generation Bahá’ís. Through life story interviews, converts narrate their process becoming as “not converting”, which aligns with a principle called “progressive revelation”. Religious has frequently been described literature radical, sudden, dramatic transformation–often following personal crisis and seemingly entails definite break one’s former identity. Consequently, studies have focused on subjective experiences rapid changes lives identities individuals. However, such perspectives have, until now, mainly Christianity Christian models not adequately addressed other Abrahamic religions, Faith. The paradigm focuses our attention ways particular theologies shape stories what kind social scientists will include corpus conversion. Therefore, this research asks to broaden scientific paradigms case study