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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... society in which it is born. Such an approach, however, does not preclude other perspectives, such as a revelatory one, because the sociological search is for empirical and contextual data and does not deal with the motivational or ...
... 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] . . . towards the wider ...
... society to the 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 ...
... adherents, well established in society, and a stable, institutional structure . . . seems likely to endure.” Despite such commendations, one of the major annotated bibliographies of new religious movements (Choquette, 1985:1998) lists 347.
... society, a traditional and personal moral code is associated with right-wing and orthodox social action, Bahá'u'lláh's teachings emphasize a personal moral code based on traditional religious ethics, and embrace a liberal set of social ...
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