Baha'i Faith: Emerging Global Religion (eBook - ePub)

"An excellent introduction. [The Baha'i Faith] offers a clear analysis of the religious and ethical values on which Baha'ism is based (such as all-embracing peace, world harmony, the important role of women, to mention a few)." -Annemarie Schimmel, past president, International Association for the History of Religions Explore the history, teachings, structure and community life of the world-wide Baha'i community-what may well be the most diverse organized body of people on earth-through this revised and updated comprehensive introduction (2002). Named by the Encyclopedia Britannica as a book that has made "significant contributions to the knowledge and understanding" of religious thought, The Baha'i Faith covers the most recent developments in a faith that, in just over 150 years, has grown to become the second most wide-spread of the independent world religions.