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 group consisted of eighteen-year-old Edith Magee, her fifteen-year-old sister Harriet, her mother Annie, who was fortytwo, and possibly Annie Magee's two sisters, Rose and Vail. The requirements for Bahá'í membership were, in the ...
... Bahá'í Faith on 21 May 1897, at the same time as Lua Getsinger, a very prominent early American Bahá'í (Stockman, 1985: 90), but there is no record of him in the early Bahá'í membership lists (ibid., 1988). He moved to Toronto, perhaps ...
... membership (Gibbons, 1992). When James Carmichael heard of the Bahá'í religion in May 1899 in Chicago he immediately converted (Star of the West, 2 March 1919, p. 223) as the 696th Bahá'í in Chicago (BEL).10 He took up residence in ...
... Bahá'í teachings. This led to an occasional clash with the Bahá'í point of view. Though formally still a member until the early 1930s, Henderson's involvement with the Bahá'í community may have already been declining by the mid-1920s ...
... Bahá'í House of Worship and in the membership of local, national, and international Bahá'í governing councils, the number “nine” has a practical and symbolic importance. Some Bahá'ís occasionally extend this importance into their daily ...
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