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- Title
The Baha'i Faith in Australia 1947-1963.
- Authors
HASSALL, GRAHAM
- Abstract
Between 1947 and 1963 the Australian Baha'i community developed an institutional framework at local and national levels and expanded its activities both with Australia and islands of the Pacific Ocean. The community's evolution was shaped not only by the activities of its members, but by the faith's evolution globally, and by persecution of the Baha'i community in Iran. The opening of a house of worship in Sydney (see cover photograph) in 1961 contributed significantly to the Baha'i community's profile. In 1963 it was one of fifty-six communities worldwide to participate in the establishment of the faith's world governing body, the Universal House of Justice.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; HISTORY of the Bahai Faith; RELIGIOUS institutions; SHOGHI, Effendi, 1897-1957; RELIGION in mass media; PROSELYTIZING; RELIGIOUS newspapers &; periodicals; RELIGION; GOVERNMENT policy
- Publication
Journal of Religious History, 2012, Vol 36, Issue 4, p563
- ISSN
0022-4227
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9809.2012.01231.x