Bibliography: BIB27871

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reference type	Book
title	The Last Refuge : Fifty Years of the Universal House of Justice
series title	'Irfan Publication Occasional Papers
author	Fatheazam, Shahbaz
authority control	Shahbaz Fatheazam
year	2015
publisher	'Irfán Colloquia Publications
place published	Wilmette, Illinois
issue	7.
ISBN	9783942426268
abstract	The transitional period of the Bahá'í Faith is absorbing. The significance of historical events is magnified by the hold of new imperatives and new emerging realities as well as by a landscape increasingly cluttered with discredited political and organizational alternatives. This book organizes ideas around a unique theme - the establishment of the Universal House of Justice - and its corollary - loyalty to a special leadership which draws cultures and societies towards a unitary center supported by the universal appeal to order and a loving authority. Social forces that allow for civilization to advance must crystallize into institutions to be immortalized. With history moving in only one direction, it is the ultimate responsibility of this supreme institution to assure that it continues to its goal of becoming the Ark of human salvation. Adapted from back cover.
language	English
keywords	UNIVERSAL HOUSE OF JUSTICE; ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER; HISTORY; GOVERNANCE; INDIVIDUALISM; 1963-2013
number of pages	116
call number	BP382.1 .F38 2015 (BWC - COLLINS)