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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 Babi and Baha'i Religions: From Messianic Shi'ism to a World Religion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521301282. Warburg, Margit (2006). Citizens of the world: a history and sociology of the Bahaʹis from a globalisation perspective. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-474-0746-1. OCLC 234309958
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 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.
' The Most Holy Book ') is the central religious text of the Baháʼí Faith, written by Baháʼu'lláh, the founder of the religion, in 1873. [1] Though it is the main source of Baháʼí laws and practices, much of the content deals with other matters, like foundational principles of the religion, the establishment of Baháʼí institutions ...
The Baháʼí World Centre is the name given to the spiritual and administrative centre of the Baháʼí Faith, [1] representing sites in or near the cities of Acre and Haifa, Israel. Much of the international governance and coordination of the Baháʼí Faith occurs at the Baháʼí World Centre, including global teaching plans and study and ...
A map of the location of Baháʼí Houses of Worship throughout the world: green represents countries that currently have Baháʼí Houses of Worship (with a black dot for the city); light green represents countries where Baháʼí Houses of Worship are planned or under construction; and red represents countries where a Baháʼí House of Worship previously existed.
“The faith’s principles and ideas are interpreted and accepted in a variety of cultural contexts,” Zackery Heern, a Baha’i history professor with a focus on religion at Idaho State ...