El principio bahá’í de «unidad de la humanidad» en la acción social bahá’í: el caso de la Comunidad madrileña
- Author(s)
- Marcela Medellín Ramírez
- Language
- Spanish
- Journal
- 'Ilu. Revista de Ciencias de las Religiones
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- e109247
- Pages
- 1-11
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5209/ilur.109247
Description
Originated in the mid-nineteenth century, the Bahá’í Faith is a universal monotheistic religion. Through its conception of progressive revelation, it recognizes and embraces the prophets of various religions, with Bahá’u’lláh regarded as the most recent of these prophets and the founder of the Bahá’í Faith. The life of a Bahá’í includes certain individual practices, participation in community life, and efforts to apply the teachings of Bahá’u’lláh across different spheres of life. In this way each Bahá’í strives to reflect these teachings with coherence and excellence. Shoghi Effendi (1897-1957), the Guardian of the Bahá’í Faith, authorized interpreter of its scriptures and direct descendant of Bahá’u’lláh (1817-1892), explains in The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh (1938) that the Bahá’í principle of the unity of humanity can be understood as harmony in diversity. The Bahá’í community maintains an active commitment to society, seeking to contribute to the advancement of civilization through social, material and spiritual dimensions. The aim of this article is to analyse how the Bahá’í principle of the unity of humanity is translated into concrete practices, in order to understand how Bahá’í social action in Madrid is not merely a complementary activity but rather an intrinsic dimension of its religious identity
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