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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... religion. First, it does so by offering a historical account of how a non-Western religious community has become established in its host setting. The study involves a time span of fifty years, a much longer time period than is the case ...
... religious movement and the wider society. Colin Campbell (1982) suggests that we can generate a satisfactory understanding of the growth of religious movements when our attention is “directed away from internal features [of the new religion] ...
... religion are quite different in its more developed phase than in its emergent phase. The Origins of the Bahá'í Community of Canada corrects, I hope, several trends in Canadian Bahá'í informal historiography. The few written, but many ...
... religious movement of sufficient size and age to merit study for its own sake. The Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988: 303) considers it to be the third most global religion, and according to Ellwood (1985: 12), the Bahá'í Faith ...
... Religion (1985), contains a number of factual errors about 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 ...
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