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...With only six active members, two of whom are currently abroad, the Harvard Baha??i Association could hardly be considered one of the more prominent groups on campus. One key tenet of this alternative religion might explain why: Baha??i takes a firm stance against proselytizing. The faith strictly forbids its followers from pressuring people to change their beliefs, instead emphasizing the importance of mutual understanding of other religions. For these few students, joining the Baha??i faith represents a conscious, informed decision to embrace a more inclusive form of spirituality...
...Baha??i religion stresses the idea of a united world population and the equal validity of all faiths. The religious community also eschews any form of hierarchy. Thus the president of the Harvard Baha??i Association, Michael A. Sabet ’07, is president in name only. He is a point of contact for the group for the Harvard community, but he has no official role within the organization. “Aside from prayer, which is mandatory, there is very little ritual—no clergy” says Sabet. “Each...
...Baha??i is based upon the inclusion and equality of other religious ideas. As Sabet explains, his interpretation of faith includes belief in Christ. “I hold Christ and Baha??i to be of the same station, equally worthy of veneration” he says, “because they’re equal in the Baha??i mind.” [SEE CORRECTION BELOW...
Recently declared Baha??i members Kendra N. Boothe ’09 and Katherine C. (Kacey) Wilson ’10 have followed different paths to their new faith, but they came from similar starting points. Both were raised Catholic, and, in college, were exposed for the first time to organized beliefs that articulated what they had been feeling for a long time...
...Middle East’s most ancient and holy sites. The tour participants were looking to advance plans for a path by which future tourists might follow the footsteps of Abraham—the father of monotheism who is claimed as an ancestor by Muslims, Christians, Jews, and Baha??i.The Abraham Path would begin in Harran, Turkey—which many Biblical scholars believe to be the location where Abraham first heard the call to “go forth from your country,” as the Book of Genesis recounts—and would...