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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... Bahá'í Faith. They prepared the worldwide Bahá'í community for the election of the Universal House of Justice in 1963. This latter body, anticipated by Bahá'u'lláh, is the supreme administrative authority of the Bahá'í Faith with the ...
... Bahá'í Faith, and that some 37% recognize the Bahá'í Faith when asked directly. Only one quarter of this latter group, however, can state any understanding or impression of it (Public Information Office, 1986). 19 The reader should be ...
... Bahá'í. Faith. Comes. to. Canada. While Paul Dealy, Honoré Jaxon, and Aimee Montfort were either taking classes or accepting the Bahá'í religion in 1897, Edith Magee (1880-1971) of London, Ontario, then seventeen years of age, was making ...
... Bahá'í community (see chapter 9). In any event, a firm foundation had been laid by the Magees; in 1917, when a prominent and influential Bahá'í ... Faith in their home town. The family had already begun spending more and more time in New York ...
... Bahá'í Faith, albeit indirectly, through his links with Inglis.33 Inglis, an Episcopalian, never became a Bahá'í. In 1946, he wrote an article on the Bahá'í Faith, entitled “Bahá'ís Would Make a Spiritual Peace,” which Horace Holley ...
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