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 14
... followers to observe this governing order of the soci- ety in which they lived . The Báb made any form of aggressive jihád contingent upon his own approval , an approval which was not given despite the increasingly violent character of ...
... followers to observe this governing order of the soci- ety in which they lived . The Báb made any form of aggressive jihád contingent upon his own approval , an approval which was not given despite the increasingly violent character of ...
Page 41
... followers of the Báb . Yaḥyá later told Professor Browne that he had been so abandoned by the other exiles that he was compelled on occasion to go himself to the marketplace in order to shop for food . However , he still maintained the ...
... followers of the Báb . Yaḥyá later told Professor Browne that he had been so abandoned by the other exiles that he was compelled on occasion to go himself to the marketplace in order to shop for food . However , he still maintained the ...
Page 53
... followers of Bahá'- u'lláh was immediate and decisive . In him they believed they saw the spirit of Jesus Christ again moving among humanity . Indeed , in their enthusiasm they were prepared to put his station well beyond the bounds of ...
... followers of Bahá'- u'lláh was immediate and decisive . In him they believed they saw the spirit of Jesus Christ again moving among humanity . Indeed , in their enthusiasm they were prepared to put his station well beyond the bounds of ...
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