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 81
... civilization . This is to be achieved through the de- velopment of new social structures which reduce and eliminate conflict of interest and by the creation of a new level of human consciousness , that of the basic oneness of humanity ...
... civilization . This is to be achieved through the de- velopment of new social structures which reduce and eliminate conflict of interest and by the creation of a new level of human consciousness , that of the basic oneness of humanity ...
Page 135
... civilization , arising out of a faith in Bahá'u'lláh's Covenant with them , is both contemporary and unique . In a widely read survey on the pos- sibilities for world unity and global civilization , American social scien- 8. Shoghi ...
... civilization , arising out of a faith in Bahá'u'lláh's Covenant with them , is both contemporary and unique . In a widely read survey on the pos- sibilities for world unity and global civilization , American social scien- 8. Shoghi ...
Page 146
... civilization will come into being . They believe that the nucleus and pattern of this future global system already exist in the laws and Administrative Order conceived by the founder of their faith and implemented and developed by ...
... civilization will come into being . They believe that the nucleus and pattern of this future global system already exist in the laws and Administrative Order conceived by the founder of their faith and implemented and developed by ...
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