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Abstract:
Overview of the status of violence in the Bahá'í tradition, and the historical/social conditions in which these doctrines were articulated.
Notes:
Mirrored with permission from toddlawson.ca. Read more, and order a copy of the book from ucpress.edu.
Crossreferences:

The Bahá'í Tradition:

The Return of Joseph and the Peaceable Imagination

Todd Lawson

published in Fighting Words: Religion, Violence, and the Interpretation of Sacred Texts

ed. John Renard, pp. 135-157

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012

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