Word: baha
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harrison says beliefs concerning the intensity of the lesser peace vary among the Baha'i and are very much a matter of self-interpretation. "Some people believe it'll just be bad weather," she says...
Although public awareness of the faith is not great, Cook says he feels people on campus react positively to Baha'i ideas. "I think our ideas are of such a nature that they don't really conflict with anyone's viewpoints enough to cause hostility," he says...
Save for a symbolic ring which many members wear, there are no outward traits which imply membership in the Baha'i; but that doesn't mean there are not distinguishing features of the faith which set members apart...
Practicing Baha'is are forbidden to drink, smoke, take drugs, or engage in premarital sex. Marriage itself is only sanctioned if it has the approval of both partners' families, because of the importance of family unity within the faith, Andrews says...
...there is also a Baha'i law against being fanatical, Diessner says. "We do seek advice of physicians when ill and consider anything a physician prescribes [to be] okay...