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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Page 52
... Kheiralla , who had enrolled in the Bahá'í Faith in Cairo , Egypt , immigrated to the United States and began classes among interested inquirers . The first American Bahá'í was an insurance executive named Thornton Chase . By 1897 , ...
... Kheiralla , who had enrolled in the Bahá'í Faith in Cairo , Egypt , immigrated to the United States and began classes among interested inquirers . The first American Bahá'í was an insurance executive named Thornton Chase . By 1897 , ...
Page 54
... Kheiralla . The latter saw himself as both the most influential teacher of the faith in North America , and a leading exponent of its fundamental con- cepts . Browne later published notes from Kheiralla's lectures , which 6. The Bahá'í ...
... Kheiralla . The latter saw himself as both the most influential teacher of the faith in North America , and a leading exponent of its fundamental con- cepts . Browne later published notes from Kheiralla's lectures , which 6. The Bahá'í ...
Page 55
... Kheiralla in a mélange of esoteric doctrines that bore no relation to the teachings of the founder of the Bahá'í Faith . During his visit to Acre in 1898 , Kheiralla sought ' Abdu'l - Bahá's en- dorsement of his presentation of the Bahá ...
... Kheiralla in a mélange of esoteric doctrines that bore no relation to the teachings of the founder of the Bahá'í Faith . During his visit to Acre in 1898 , Kheiralla sought ' Abdu'l - Bahá's en- dorsement of his presentation of the Bahá ...
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