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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... century A.D. ) and Sikhism ( sixteenth century A.D. ) are centuries old ; the others - Hin- duism , Buddhism , Jainism , Taoism , Confucianism , Shinto , Zoroas- trianism , Judaism , and Christianity - date back thousands of years . The ...
... century A.D. ) and Sikhism ( sixteenth century A.D. ) are centuries old ; the others - Hin- duism , Buddhism , Jainism , Taoism , Confucianism , Shinto , Zoroas- trianism , Judaism , and Christianity - date back thousands of years . The ...
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... century after Bahá'u'lláh's passing — that the themes of his message do indeed represent the paramount realities facing humanity . Many of the writings in which Bahá'u'lláh had laid out these concepts had originally been addressed to ...
... century after Bahá'u'lláh's passing — that the themes of his message do indeed represent the paramount realities facing humanity . Many of the writings in which Bahá'u'lláh had laid out these concepts had originally been addressed to ...
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... century's end , its contents merit particular attention.23 The statement notes in opening that , with the physical unification of the planet in this century , " the history of humanity as one people is now beginning . " This fact calls ...
... century's end , its contents merit particular attention.23 The statement notes in opening that , with the physical unification of the planet in this century , " the history of humanity as one people is now beginning . " This fact calls ...
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