The Bahá'í Faith: The Emerging Global ReligionExplore 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 22
Cited in Shoghi Effendi , God Passes By , p . 65. The Russian ambassador ,
Prince Dolgorukov , who likewise witnessed these cruelties , denounced them in
a personal interview with the shah as “ barbarous practices ” which did not even
exist ...
Cited in Shoghi Effendi , God Passes By , p . 65. The Russian ambassador ,
Prince Dolgorukov , who likewise witnessed these cruelties , denounced them in
a personal interview with the shah as “ barbarous practices ” which did not even
exist ...
Page 36
Within less than twenty - four months , nearly a score of desperate souls
advanced various claims of their own in attempts to usurp the unstable
leadership , and Mirza Yahyá withdrew 13. See Shoghi Effendi , God Passes By ,
chapters 7 and ...
Within less than twenty - four months , nearly a score of desperate souls
advanced various claims of their own in attempts to usurp the unstable
leadership , and Mirza Yahyá withdrew 13. See Shoghi Effendi , God Passes By ,
chapters 7 and ...
Page 108
The Bahá'í Faith explicitly teaches , however , that the physical human race has
indeed gradually evolved , passing from ... the human race has always been a
species distinct from animal species : ... the embryo passes through different
states ...
The Bahá'í Faith explicitly teaches , however , that the physical human race has
indeed gradually evolved , passing from ... the human race has always been a
species distinct from animal species : ... the embryo passes through different
states ...
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| Title | The Bahá'í Faith: The Emerging Global Religion |
| Authors | William S. Hatcher, James Douglas Martin |
| Publisher | Baha'i Publishing, 2002 |
| ISBN | 1931847061, 9781931847063 |
| Length | 253 pages |
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