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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...
...views on spirituality she already had. “I think I was a Baha’i for a while before I declared for myself that I was a Baha’i” she says. “The belief in the oneness of religion, and that religion is supposed to unite people, and not divide people… this was comforting to hear because I thought it was something I always knew, but was never really articulated...
...French said. Topics for discussion have ranged from the definition of faith to the role of prayer in daily life to the role of Christianity at Harvard. According to French, who is also a third-year student at the Harvard Divinity School, the group provides a different take on religion from other faith-based groups on campus. “Most of these are of a more conservative theological bent,” he said. “We were interested in forming a group regardless of theological persuasion.” Despite a variety of perspectives on religion...
...between. That these days a woman chooses her life partner from a broader range of candidates, and feels confident enough to tailor her hejab accordingly, suggests an erosion of social boundaries that can only be healthy for a country that had a revolution, in part, over the role of religion in governance and daily life. It is difficult to envision that authoritarian laws have somehow made Iranian society more tolerant. There is a sort of perverse pluralism in today's Iran, where the moral weight of the family is removed in questions of religiosity, and young people, exposed...