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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... history, teachings, and development of the Bahá'í community.6. Transplantation. Studies. in. the. Sociology. of. Religion. My story is about the origins and early life of a non-Western faith transplanted into a Western setting (i.e., Canada) ...
... history” when looking at new religious groups. The Origins of the Bahá'í Community of Canada examines the process of culturally embedding the Bahá'í community in Canadian society and explores the empirical linkages to mainstream culture ...
... Bahá'í history in Canadian Bahá'í journals. One finds few articles that delve into the past, except for a one-page article, notable for its lack of detail (“1893: First Canadian Bahá'í,” 1979), and one on Prince Edward Island (Rolfe ...
... Bahá'í Faith will require differing descriptions, depending on the particular phase of Bahá'í history. Obviously, the reactions of society to a new religion are quite different in its more developed phase than in its emergent phase. The ...
... Bahá'í Faith.18 Before considering the social history of the Bahá'ís in Canada, it will be useful to provide a general history of the movement before its arrival in Canada in the last decade of the nineteenth century. General. History. of.
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