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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... religions. Not many scholarly treatments of the sociology of religion deal with, or have devoted much space or attention to, new, transplanted religious movements (more particularly, non-Christian religions) settling in alien ...
... religions selected for analysis. In particular, they explore the new religious movements over a short time frame. The diversity of transplanted religious groups that have found a home in Western society is not something than comes to ...
... religious economy” that is multicultural and multifaith.15 Of these approaches, The Origins of the Bahd'i Community ... movements that is characteristic of contemporary studies. As Skocpol (1984: 361) suggests, we also need to relate ...
... religious movement and the wider society. Colin Campbell (1982) suggests that we can generate a satisfactory understanding of the growth of religious movements when our attention is “directed away from internal features [of the new religion] ...
... religious movements in Canada, which put them on the margins of their respective disciplines, have ignored the Bahá'í Faith. This has not always been the case. Several Islamicists of the late nineteenth century saw the Bahá'í Faith as a ...
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