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  2. Baháʼí Faith in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Bahá'í Historical Record Survey was an early demographic review of the Bahá'í Faith in the United States and Canada done circa 1934-1936. The backgrounds of Bahá'ís were later studied in a number of ways - racial and ethnic heritage, previous religious background, geographical spread and sometimes how these have changed over the years.

  3. Baháʼí Faith in North America - Wikipedia

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    ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, son of Baháʼu'lláh, the founder of the Baháʼí Faith, visited the United States and Canada in 1912. [1]ʻAbdu'l-Bahá wrote a series of letters, or tablets, to the followers of the religion in the United States in 1916–1917; these letters were compiled together in the book titled Tablets of the Divine Plan.

  4. Baháʼí Faith by country - Wikipedia

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    In 2013, the book The World's Religions in Figures: An Introduction to International Religious Demography wrote, "The Baha'i Faith is the only religion to have grown faster in every United Nations region over the past 100 years than the general population; Bahaʼi was thus the fastest-growing religion between 1910 and 2010, growing at least ...

  5. Bahá'í Historical Record Survey - Wikipedia

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    The 1934-1936 Bahá'í Historical Record Survey (also called "cards") was an early demographic review of the Bahá'í Faith in the United States and Canada. The backgrounds of Bahá'ís were later studied in a number of ways - racial and ethnic heritage, previous religious background, geographical spread and sometimes how these have changed over the years.

  6. Baháʼí Faith - Wikipedia

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    Bahá'í Houses of Worship are places where both Baháʼís and non-Baháʼís can express devotion to God. [153] They are also known by the name Mashriqu'l-Adhkár (Arabic for "Dawning-place of the remembrance of God"). [154] Only the holy scriptures of the Bahá'í Faith and other religions can be read or chanted inside, and while readings ...

  7. Baháʼí studies - Wikipedia

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    While there were previous Iran or near-Iranian sources of scholarship of the religion in early periods, wide-ranging publications covering mostly western literature include Moojan Momens' 1981 The Babi and Baha'i Religions, 1844–1944: Some Contemporary Western Accounts, [41] William Collins' 1992 Bibliography of English-language works on the ...

  8. Religion in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Bahá'í House of Worship (built 1953) in Wilmette, Illinois, is the oldest extant Bahá'í house of worship in the world and the only one in the United States. The Baháʼí Faith was first mentioned in the United States in 1893 at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago. [148] Soon after, early American converts began embracing the new ...

  9. Baháʼí Faith and Native Americans - Wikipedia

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    Shoghi Effendi, head of the religion from 1921 to 1957, stated: "The fundamental principle enunciated by Baháʼu'lláh, the followers of his Faith firmly believe, is that religious truth is not absolute but relative, that Divine Revelation is a continuous and progressive process, that all the great religions of the world are divine in origin, that their basic principles are in complete ...