The Baha'i Faith: The Emerging Global ReligionHarper & Row, 1990 - 228 pages This is a study of the history, teachings, administrative structure and community life of the Baha'i faith, the youngest and fastest growing of the world's independent religions. |
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Page 161
... political action , which is necessarily partisan and divisive in nature , cannot hold the answers to problems that are universal in their very essence . All political instruments , he pointed out , are limited and particular , whether ...
... political action , which is necessarily partisan and divisive in nature , cannot hold the answers to problems that are universal in their very essence . All political instruments , he pointed out , are limited and particular , whether ...
Page 208
... political sympathies were greatly intensified by nationalistic ones : the Constitutionalists were viewed in British imperialist circles as natural allies against Tsarist Russia which supported the Qájár Shahs . Because Browne believed ...
... political sympathies were greatly intensified by nationalistic ones : the Constitutionalists were viewed in British imperialist circles as natural allies against Tsarist Russia which supported the Qájár Shahs . Because Browne believed ...
Page 209
... political careers and blocked by Bahá'u'lláh from using the Báb's legacy to this end , who provided Browne with the documents on which he based most of his later research . " The effect was unfortunate , from the point of view of ...
... political careers and blocked by Bahá'u'lláh from using the Báb's legacy to this end , who provided Browne with the documents on which he based most of his later research . " The effect was unfortunate , from the point of view of ...
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