The Baha'i Faith: The Emerging Global ReligionBaha'i Publishing, 2002 - 253 pages Explore the history, teachings, structure and community life of the world-wide Baha'i community-what may well be the most diverse organized body of people on earth-through this revised and updated comprehensive introduction (2002). Named by the Encyclopedia Britannica as a book that has made "significant contributions to the knowledge and understanding" of religious thought, The Baha'i Faith covers the most recent developments in a faith that, in just over 150 years, has grown to become the second most wide-spread of the independent world religions. |
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... Islam . Much as Chris- tianity was born out of the messianic expectations of Judaism , the re- ligion that was to become the Bahá'í Faith arose from eschatological tensions within Islam . In the same way , however , the Bahá'í Faith is ...
... Islam . Much as Chris- tianity was born out of the messianic expectations of Judaism , the re- ligion that was to become the Bahá'í Faith arose from eschatological tensions within Islam . In the same way , however , the Bahá'í Faith is ...
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... Islam as saints and martyrs . Although Shiah Islam began among the Arabs , it reached its great- est influence in Persia . From the beginning , the Persian converts to Is- lam were attracted by the idea of the Imam as a divinely ...
... Islam as saints and martyrs . Although Shiah Islam began among the Arabs , it reached its great- est influence in Persia . From the beginning , the Persian converts to Is- lam were attracted by the idea of the Imam as a divinely ...
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... Islam . Orthodox Islam holds that Muhammad was the " Seal of the Prophets " and thus the bearer of God's final revelation to humankind until the " Day of Judgment . " Only Islam has remained pure and undiminished because its repository ...
... Islam . Orthodox Islam holds that Muhammad was the " Seal of the Prophets " and thus the bearer of God's final revelation to humankind until the " Day of Judgment . " Only Islam has remained pure and undiminished because its repository ...
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