{"title":"Religion, the Baha'i Faith, and Accounting","authors":"Roger K. Doost","doi":"10.31581/jbs-7.3.444(1997)","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31581/jbs-7.3.444(1997)","url":null,"abstract":"This essay reports on the results of discussions of spiritual principles in an accounting class. Accounting is a system that seeks to create balance, order, and justice in human business affairs. Its philosophy is in line with belief in an almighty Creator and can be derived from the Baha'i writings.","PeriodicalId":393019,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Bahá’í Studies","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1997-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121113649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Race Unity","authors":"June Manning Thomas","doi":"10.31581/jbs-6.4.440(1995)","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31581/jbs-6.4.440(1995)","url":null,"abstract":"This article briefly reviews some of the universal principles of unity which apply to the metropolis, whether that metropolis is Sarajevo, San Juan, or San Francisco. It then summarizes, for four distinct time periods during the twentieth century, some of the major ways in which racial disunity has been imprinted upon the metropolitan landscape in the United States. For each era, more social attention to specific Baha'i teachings could have played a significant role in reducing fragmentation. The article ends by summarizing some of the major spiritual principles necessary to improve the fragmented metropolis, in the United States, and around the world.","PeriodicalId":393019,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Bahá’í Studies","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130508795","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Some Images of a \"New Creation\" in Twentieth-Century Art","authors":"Julie Badiee","doi":"10.31581/jbs-7.1.441(1995)","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31581/jbs-7.1.441(1995)","url":null,"abstract":"The theme of destruction is so common in twentieth-century art that it is easy to make the superficial mistake of dismissing much of modern art as dealing with death and despair. However, a closer study of this perios can reveal that there has also always been a fascination with the subjects of birth, renewal, and new beginnings. Many of the art forms of our century exhibit a profound and purposeful break from the past and can be understood as a continuing attempt by modern artists to create a unique and unprecedented visual language for the age in which we live. This article looks at the works of some twentieth-centur artists to show that, whether they were aware of the Baha'i Revelation or not, many of these artists have been compelled to express the quiet, yet unmistakable theme of a \"new creation.\"","PeriodicalId":393019,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Bahá’í Studies","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134122177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Baha'i Cosmological Symbolism and the Ecofeminist Critique","authors":"Michael Sou","doi":"10.31581/jbs-7.1.442(1995)","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31581/jbs-7.1.442(1995)","url":null,"abstract":"This article is composed of three parts. The first part documents the constituents of Baha'i cosmological symbolism--such as dualism, theism, and redemptive history. By \"cosmological symbolism\" is here meant a system of symbols used to portray the origin, nature, and existence of the cosmos. As will be shown, the most immediate antecedents of Baha'i cosmological symbolism are various biblica texts (most elements can be observed in the Book of Genesis alone and often as mediated through the Qur'an). Biblical cosmological symbolism--especially those aspects that relate to dualistic theism--has been criticized severely by some feminists and environmentalists, and their arguments can also be applied to Baha'i cosmology. The second part of this article provides a brief introduction to the main feminist/environmentalist arguments. The third part summarizes and examines the eschatological character of Baha'i cosmological symbolism since Baha'i eschatology provides answers to many feminist and ecological objections.","PeriodicalId":393019,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Bahá’í Studies","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129884943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Some Thoughts on the Teachings of Baha'u'llah and the Rise of Globalism","authors":"Rose Van Es","doi":"10.31581/jbs-7.1.443(1995)","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31581/jbs-7.1.443(1995)","url":null,"abstract":"Globalism has replaced the Cold War as the dominant ideology. Along with shift from East-West tension to ecological concerns has come a change from national to global worries. This article begins by presenting the argument that global thinking is replacing traditional nationalist ideologies. The article then discusses the changes necessary for a shift to an ecologically centered identity and the merits of the Baha'i Faith's teachings are examined in light of a transformation to a world-centered mindset. Finally, the article concludes by questioning whether the teachings of Baha'u'llah fully recognize material prosperity as restricted by the earth's limited resources.","PeriodicalId":393019,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Bahá’í Studies","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122014867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Us and Them","authors":"C. Lerche","doi":"10.31581/jbs-5.4.439(1993)","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31581/jbs-5.4.439(1993)","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuse son the division of the world into mutually exclusive identity groups and its implication for international affairs. To this end, the concepts of alienation and estrangement are developed as useful analytical tools, and the sources of alienation and estrangement in the state system are discussed. The Baha'i model of world unity and world civilization is presented as a value system that specifically highlights the need tp overcome divisions in global society. Lastly, the concepts developed are employed to assess the phenomenon of European integration.","PeriodicalId":393019,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Bahá’í Studies","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116389862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Forging More Perfect Unions","authors":"W. Barnes","doi":"10.31581/jbs-5.1.437(1992)","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31581/jbs-5.1.437(1992)","url":null,"abstract":"The author believes that, to avoid disintegration, social advances toward more inclusive political structures must be accompanied by a moral advance toward more universal values. This article discusses the three stages of humanity’s global political unification, as these are described in the Bahá’í writings: confederation, federation, and commonwealth. Since in the author’s view forms of government are outer expressions of inner levels of collective unified consciousness, each of these forms of government also marks a stage of humanity’s deepening inner unification. Of particular note is the discussion of the changing concept of competition. Competition has been the dynamic power behind humanity’s advance to this point. Competition will remain the driving power of advance, but, based on statements from the Bahá’í writings, the author argues that if human beings are to create a united world they must stop competing selfishly to obtain individual, national, or regional goals and, instead, compete selflessly to forge cooperative structures that will benefit all humanity.","PeriodicalId":393019,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Bahá’í Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130403560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Immanence and Transcendence in Divine Scripture","authors":"M. Sours","doi":"10.31581/jbs-5.2.438(1992)","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31581/jbs-5.2.438(1992)","url":null,"abstract":"Various anthropomorphic and naturalistic symbols are used in biblical, quranic, and Baha'i scriptures to depict theophanies--the appearance of God and the divine in the realm of creation. Many of the same theophanic symbols that appear in biblical and quranic scriptures are used in the writings of Baha'u'llah to communicate Baha'u'llah's own divinity and to connect His ministry with past rdemptive history. Such symbols include and \"angel,\" \"fire,\" and the prophets' claims to be God incarnating symbolically the \"face\" or \"voice\" of God. This article examines the theological significance of some of these symbols, giving special emphasis to how thet are used by Baha'u'llah to convey the immanence or transcendence of God and to create continuity between His own revelation and past revelations.","PeriodicalId":393019,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Bahá’í Studies","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131390721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“The Angle of Ascent”","authors":"Ann Boyles","doi":"10.31581/jbs-4.4.434(1992)","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31581/jbs-4.4.434(1992)","url":null,"abstract":"The poetry of Robert Hayden explores the process of individual and collective social and spiritual transformation in a variety of’ contexts, including contemporary culture, the Bahá’í Faith, black history, art, literature, nature, disease, and suffering. In developing his themes and images, Hayden ‘works through many of the central issues and events shaping the modern world and moves towards a “re-centering” or re-focusing of vision around a spiritual reality. A close reading of a number of’ Hayden’s poems, including “Words in the Mourning Time,” “The Broken Dark,” “From the Corpse Woodpiles, from the Ashes,” “Middle Passage,” “Runagate, Runagate,” “The Dream (1863),” “El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz,” “The Night-Blooming Cereus,” and “For a Young Artist” reveals the poet’s concentration on this process of change and growth. In an age that champions despair and unbelief, Hayden’s poems are records of a journey “from Can’t to Can,” from grief to hope, from death to life, from suffering to comfort, from brokenness to wholeness, from the earthbound state to flight. True to his vision of art as “ultimately religious in the broadest sense of the term,” Hayden has created a body of work that eloquently depicts the struggles and achievements of the human spirit.","PeriodicalId":393019,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Bahá’í Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126262495","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Altruism and Extensivity in the Bahá’í Religion","authors":"W. Heller, H. Mahmoudi","doi":"10.2307/J.CTT9QG24M.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/J.CTT9QG24M.29","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the teachings of the Bahá’í Faith in relation to recent research on altruism and prosocial behavior. It discusses the interaction between spiritual and social transformation through Bahá’í beliefs and practices that encourage the development of altruistic personalities in individuals within a social framework whose norms are intrinsically altruistic. The Bahá’í teachings on the relationship of the individual and society, the unity of religion, and the unity of humanity are discussed and linked with values and attitudes that recent research suggests foster the development of an altruistic orientation. The role of child socialization and parental discipline is also examined, as well as ethical principles of justice and caring as motivators of altruism, and Bahá’í administrative principles, which provide a social framework for the institutionalization of unity in diversity.","PeriodicalId":393019,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Bahá’í Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129187148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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