The Origins of the Bahá’í Community of Canada, 1898-1948Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press, 2010 M10 30 - 368 pages What binds together Louis Riel’s former secretary, a railroad inventor, a Montreal comedienne, an early proponent of Canada’s juvenile system and a prominent Canadian architect? Socialists, suffragists, musicians, artists—from 1898 to 1948, these and some 550 other individual Canadian Bahá’ís helped create a movement described as the second most widespread religion in the world. Using diaries, memoirs, official reports, private correspondence, newspapers, archives and interviews, Will C. van den Hoonaard has created the first historical account of Bahá’ís in Canada. In addition, The Origins of the Bahá’í Community of Canada, 1898-1948 clearly depicts the dynamics and the struggles of a new religion in a new country. This is a story of modern spiritual heroes—people who changed the lives of others through their devotion to the Bahá’í ideals, in particular to the belief that the earth is one country and all of humankind are its citizens. Thirty-nine original photographs effectively depict persons and events influencing the growth of the Bahá’í movement in Canada. The Origins of the Bahá’í Community of Canada, 1898-1948 makes an original contribution to religious history in Canada and provides a major sociological reference tool, as well as a narrative history that can be used by scholars and Bahá’ís alike for many years to come. |
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... religion (“1893: First Canadian Bahá'í,” 1979: 12).2 It is not clear which member of the Magee family first heard, on a rainy Saturday in Chicago, 23 September 1893, the name of the founder of the Bahá'í Faith, Bahá'u'lláh, from a paper ...
... Bahá'í Community of Canada corrects, I hope, several trends in Canadian Bahá'í informal historiography. The few written, but many oral, accounts of the history of the Bahá'í Faith in Canada tend to focus on Montreal, Toronto, and ...
... Bahá'í Faith. This has not always been the case. Several Islamicists of the late nineteenth century saw the Bahá'í Faith as a subject of great interest. The great Persian scholar Edward G. Browne devoted much of the early part of his ...
... Bahá'í Faith. Stark and Bainbridge's otherwise commendable study, The Future of Religion (1985), contains a number of factual errors about the Bahá'í Faith.18 Before considering the social history of the Bahá'ís in Canada, it will be ...
... Bahá'í community. At this time, the Bahá'í Faith had spread to five countries in the Middle East and India. Under the guidance of 'Abdu'1-Bahá, the Bahá'í Faith spread to other lands and continents, including South America, South Africa ...
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