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 76
... stages in social evolution . The next stage in this col- lective growth process , representing the culmination of human evolu- tion , is world unity : the organization of society as a planetary civiliza- tion . Shoghi Effendi spoke of ...
... stages in social evolution . The next stage in this col- lective growth process , representing the culmination of human evolu- tion , is world unity : the organization of society as a planetary civiliza- tion . Shoghi Effendi spoke of ...
Page 80
... stages in humankind's development are regarded as quite similar to the stages in the life of an individual . The current stage is described as that of adolescence , the stage immediately preceding full maturity : The long ages of ...
... stages in humankind's development are regarded as quite similar to the stages in the life of an individual . The current stage is described as that of adolescence , the stage immediately preceding full maturity : The long ages of ...
Page 141
... stages . The first stage is a period of social break- down and widespread suffering , suffering greater in scope and intensity than any previously known . Bahá'ís believe that this first stage is already well advanced and that the ...
... stages . The first stage is a period of social break- down and widespread suffering , suffering greater in scope and intensity than any previously known . Bahá'ís believe that this first stage is already well advanced and that the ...
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