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 xi
... language forms . We have applied this same principle to the names of persons of Oriental origin who subsequently established themselves in the West under a particular English language form of their name , and to names of historical ...
... language forms . We have applied this same principle to the names of persons of Oriental origin who subsequently established themselves in the West under a particular English language form of their name , and to names of historical ...
Page 96
... LANGUAGE The multiplicity of languages that characterizes the modern world is a major impediment to world unity . On the level of practical com- munications , the existence of so many different language groups cuts the free flow of ...
... LANGUAGE The multiplicity of languages that characterizes the modern world is a major impediment to world unity . On the level of practical com- munications , the existence of so many different language groups cuts the free flow of ...
Page 97
... language would be an auxil- iary one , i.e. , that it would not suppress existing natural languages . The concept of unity in diversity must be applied to differences of language in the same way as it is applied to other differences ...
... language would be an auxil- iary one , i.e. , that it would not suppress existing natural languages . The concept of unity in diversity must be applied to differences of language in the same way as it is applied to other differences ...
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