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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 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 Baháʼí Faith entered a new phase of activity when a message of the Universal House of Justice dated October 20, 1983, was released. [56] Baháʼís were urged to seek out ways, compatible with the Baháʼí teachings , in which they could become involved in the social and economic development of the communities in which they lived.
In Baha'i belief, although human cultures and religions differ on their conceptions of God and his nature, the different references to God nevertheless refer to one and the same Being. The differences, rather than being regarded as irreconcilable constructs of mutually exclusive cultures, are seen as purposefully reflective of the varying needs ...
The Baháʼí conception of God is of an "unknowable essence" who is the source of all existence and known through the perception of human virtues. The Baháʼí Faith follows the tradition of monotheism and dispensationalism, believing that God has no physical form, but periodically provides divine messengers in human form that are the sources of spiritual education.
In "The Baha'i Faith 1957–1988: A Survey of Contemporary Developments" (Religion: 1989), Baháʼí authors Momen and Smith provide the following estimates of the Baháʼís in the world over 3 decades, broken out by cultural areas. They derived numbers from, "calculation of approximate numbers from the number of Bahá'í organizations ...
Theseus1776 05:38, 4 April 2012 (UTC) Theology, Baha'i World Order, comparative religion, sociology ; Harachel22 03:14, 5 April 2012 (UTC) I know English and French well. I can read stuff. Decent at copy-editing ; Jetstream423 19:54, 11 April 2012 (UTC) Jay Tyson-Christian prophecy related to the Baha'i Faith
The Baháʼí Faith: The Emerging Global Religion. San Francisco: Harper & Row. ISBN 0-87743-264-3. McMullen, Michael D. (2000). The Baha'i: The Religious Construction of a Global Identity. Atlanta, Georgia: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0-8135-2836-4. Lundberg, Zaid (May 1996). Baha'i Apocalypticism: The Concept of Progressive Revelation ...