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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... The Montreal Community Six Early Ethnic Involvement Seven The Literary Circle of the Toronto Bahá'ís, 1913-37 Eight Tentative Anchorings in Atlantic Canada, 1913-37 Nine Retinence in the Canadian West, 1913-37 Illustrations Part Three.
... Ethnicity Part Four Relationship to Canadian Society Fourteen Opposition, Recognition, and World War II Fifteen Building a National Bahá'í Community, 1947-48 Sixteen Social and Cultural Adaptation in the Canadian Setting Appendixes ...
... ethnic, and class identities seemed so strong as to inhibit the shaping of a new society based upon the ideals of human unity. New allegiances to the Bahá'í vision of unity seemed too fragile at times to make a permanent mark in the ...
... ethnic populations, such as Sikhs in British Columbia and Buddhists in Alberta (Coward and Kawamura, 1978) and the Japanese in Canada (Mullins, 1989),9 and those, like the Bahá'ís, whose national membership is mainly derived from ...
... ethnic groups as Jews, African Canadians, and francophones in Canada, as well as the creation of Bahá'í communities ... ethnicity. Part Four discusses Bahá'í relations with the larger society, the impact of such relations on the Bahá'í ...
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