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[94] [95] In 2013, two scholars of demography wrote that, "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 [sic] was thus the fastest-growing religion between 1910 and 2010, growing at least twice as fast as the population of almost every UN ...
The Shaykhi movement was a school of theology within Twelver Shiʻa Islam that was started through the teaching of Shaykh Ahmad al-Ahsá'í.Shaykh Ahmad's teachings included that the Imams were spiritual beings and thus, in contrast to the widespread Shiʻa belief, that the Imams existed within spiritual bodies, and not material bodies. [9]
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 ...
The word faith, for Baha'is indicates a sense of "conscious knowledge" and conviction that is expressed in "the practice of good deeds". [53] Faith must also involve sincerely and wholeheartedly serving the public interest. [54] Thus in the Baha'i Faith, as one writer puts it, "reason is necessary but not sufficient". [55]
Peter Smith - historian and sociologist, author of a much-cited academic study of Baháʼí history, The Babi and Bahaʼi Religions: From Messianic Shiʻism to a World Religion. [ 91 ] Franklin Lewis - author and translator in Iranian studies, who has also published literary analyses of the works of the Báb and Baháʼu'lláh.
The faith established roots early among African Americans in Washington, D.C. and spread to both blacks and whites in other cities as well. In 1921, the religion’s head, ‘Abdu’l-Baha, asked the various congregations … to begin holding “Race Amity” meetings, where members could openly discuss race and racism.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Baháʼí Faith.. Baháʼí Faith – relatively new religion teaching the essential worth of all religions and the unity of all people, established by Baháʼu'lláh in the 19th-century Middle East and now estimated to have a worldwide following of 5–8 million adherents, known as Baháʼís.
Unity of religion is a core teaching of the Baháʼí Faith which states that there is a fundamental unity in many of the world's religions. [1] The principle states that the teachings of the major religions are part of a single plan directed from the same God . [ 2 ]