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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Page xi
... established English language forms . We have applied this same principle to the names of persons of Oriental origin who subsequently established themselves in the West under a particular English language form of their name , and to ...
... established English language forms . We have applied this same principle to the names of persons of Oriental origin who subsequently established themselves in the West under a particular English language form of their name , and to ...
Page 82
... established and mighty sys- tems , have proceeded from one Source , and are the rays of one Light . That they differ one from another is to be attributed to the varying requirements of the ages in which they were promulgated.14 Thus the ...
... established and mighty sys- tems , have proceeded from one Source , and are the rays of one Light . That they differ one from another is to be attributed to the varying requirements of the ages in which they were promulgated.14 Thus the ...
Page 216
... established in the Covenant of Bahá'- u'lláh : " The sacred and youthful branch , the guardian of the Cause of God , as well as the Universal House of Justice , to be universally elected and established , are both under the care and ...
... established in the Covenant of Bahá'- u'lláh : " The sacred and youthful branch , the guardian of the Cause of God , as well as the Universal House of Justice , to be universally elected and established , are both under the care and ...
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