It approaches Heaney’s poems “The Tollund Man,” “Servant Boy,” “Gifts of Rain” and “Limbo” from his poetry collection Wintering Out (1972) using Northrop Frye’s critical archetypal theory. The bibliography includes new commentaries published since the 1998 edition and online sources.This study examines the relevance of the aesthetic values to the cognitive values in the poetry of the Anglo-Irish poet Seamus Heaney 1939-2013, with focus on his poetry that employs mythical archetypes and imagery of rebirth. The text has been revised throughout with new and updated entries. The text includes photographs, a list of acronyms, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, hundreds of cross-referenced entries on nearly every aspect of the religion, and appendixes listing the genealogy of the Founders, statistical information, and lists of apostles, disciples, Hands of the Cause, and Knights of Baha'u'llah. His reference text provides a general historical overview of both Babi and Baha'i religions and a theological overview of the Baha'i Faith, from its beginnings to the present day. This work is a useful source of information about persons active in the Baha'i religion, the Persian terms it uses abundantly, and its basic ideas.Īdamson (business, South U., Georgia Brewton Parker College, Georgia) served as the secretary general of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'i in the UK for 11 years and is a Baha'i of 35 years. As an introduction to the religion, it serves as a gathering place for the data.įor libraries with large theological or Bahá'í concentrations and those that own the first edition. The dictionary is readable and comprehensive to the general reader. The bibliography is among the best of its kind, and the many appendixes help the reader with detailed information. Through the use of photographs, a list of acronyms, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on nearly every aspect of the religion, and appendixes listing the genealogy of the Founders, statistical information, and lists of apostles, disciples, Hands of the Cause, Knights of Bah_'u'll_h as well as of more than 930 believers who have contributed to its growth and development, this book is a fundamental tool for finding information on all things related to the Bah_'' Faith. It presents biographical details of the Founders and Central Figures along with numerous leaders and pioneers, most of the basic principles and precepts, as well as aspects of its organization and administration.

The 2nd edition of the Historical Dictionary of the Bah_'' Faith presents a general historical overview of both B_b' and Bah_'' religions, as well as a theological overview of the Bah_'' Faith, from their inception in the mid 19th century to the middle of 2005.

Growing out of the teachings of the B_b, who introduced the idea of the coming of a great prophet (the one promised in the scriptures of all the world's major religions), the Bah_'' Faith was founded by Bah_'u'll_h, when in 1866 he publicly declared that he was the One the B_b prophesized.

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