Sociology

The Fashioner takes the reader on a journey through the various ways in which the arts can touch people’s lives. Drawing on inspirational quotations from the Bahá’í Writings, as well as interviews with a number of artists, this book explores the transformative power of the arts.

America's Sacred Calling describes a blueprint for creating a new society that uplifts and honors the spritual reality of the human soul while fostering the conditions for humankind to transcend the existential fears, anxieties, and petty concerns of this temporal physical world.

America's Sacred Calling describes a blueprint for creating a new society that uplifts and honors the spritual reality of the human soul while fostering the conditions for humankind to transcend the existential fears, anxieties, and petty concerns of this temporal physical world.

America's Sacred Calling describes a blueprint for creating a new society that uplifts and honors the spritual reality of the human soul while fostering the conditions for humankind to transcend the existential fears, anxieties, and petty concerns of this temporal physical world.

This is the first scholarly attempt at a systematic exposition in English of major themes to be found in the principal writings of Bahá'u'lláh. The author offers a detailed analysis of all the major works of Bahá'u'lláh, who, the author suggests, revealed them in three successive stages during His ministry.

Due to popular demand, this book is now available again at a reduced price. An essential resource for study of core, universal concepts in the arts. This book derives from the Bahá’í teachings a new, world-embracing and stimulating vision of the arts and their practice.

Our Seven Families explores the value of human social life – why we need human connections. Drawing on her experience as a social scientist and on insights derived from a deep study of the Bahá’í Sacred Writings, McCreary expands our conception of the nature and range of human relationships, stresses the link between spiritual activities and social transformation, and suggests creative practical solutions for restoring a sense of harmony and coherence in our lives.

Whatever your age or life circumstances, Starting with Me helps you prepare yourself for marriage and lay a solid foundation for your future. It offers wisdom from the Bahá’í teachings, time-tested guidance from relationship and character specialists, insights from everyday people on their journey, and transformative questions and exercises.

Terra in Cognita

Voyages and Discoveries on the Ocean of Knowledge

By William Barnes

Humanity is undergoing a great revolution, a universal transformation, in its life, thought and society. The Author believes this revolution is essentially a spiritual one. The human aspect of the human spirit, he believes, is giving way to the divine aspect. This book answers basic questions: What are the initial stages of this transformation? Through what channels does that great revolutionizing Spirit flow? What are some of its first social effects?

In this collection of scholarly essays, the reader will find articles on various aspects of Bahá’í philosophy—philosophical anthropology, philosophy of science, philosophy of culture, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of religion, comparative and political philosophy, and, finally, history of philosophy. This compilation presents Bahá’í philosophy as a new wave of philosophical thought, and it finds itself in a fruitful dialogue not only with the traditional forms of religious philosophy but also with the modern Western thought practices of reason and empirical observation.