# Australian Baha'i Studies: Vol. 2

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> Australian Bahá'í Studies:
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> Vol. 2
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> [various authors]
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> published in Australian Bahá'í Studiesvol. 2
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> Ingleside, NSW: Association for Bahá'í Studies Australia, 2000
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> Contents
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> Editorial...................................................................................... 3
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> Section One: The Creative Inspiration
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> Creativity and Spirituality - are they related?................................................ 6
> Negin Sanaei
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> The Beautiful Flight toward the Light: Reflections on an Artist’s Life........................ 10
> Robin M. Chandler
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> The Creative Inspiration: Symbolism and Seeing................................................ 19
> Karel Fontaine
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> Of Paramount Importance - Addressing the Paucity of Music in Bahá’í Devotional Practice....... 42
> Michael Knopf
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> The Passionate Artist......................................................................... 48
> Ron Price
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> Building Creative Communities: approaching the arts as social & economic development
> through professionalizing, training, and networking internationally........................ 56
> Robin M. Chandler
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> Arts Can Move the Youth....................................................................... 66
> Mahyar Amjadi
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> Letters inscribed upon His sacred scroll: An anthology of poetry by Australian Bahá’ís 1999... 71
> Belinda Belton
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> Remembrance of Clara & Hyde Dunn.............................................................. 92
> Hooshang Eshraq-Khavari
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> The Bot. Series............................................................................... 94
> Vahid Payman
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> Section Two: On the Road to Reconciliation
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> Something Regal: Uncle Fred Murray. A compilation of tributes, photographs and stories........ 97
> June Perkins
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> A lonely road to native title determination.................................................. 109
> Walter Waia
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> Section Three: History
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> Mr Faizi and Mr Furútan in Australia: the Yerrinbool tapes................................... 125
> Hands of the Cause, Mr Abdul Qasim Faizi and Mr ‘Ali-Akbar Furútan
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> Women and Religious Change: a case study in the colonial migrant experience.................. 211
> Miriam Dixson
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> The Practice of Taqiyyih (Dissimulation) in the Bábí and Bahá’í Religions.................... 219
> Sepehr Manuchehri
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> Section Four: Research and Literature
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> A “Phoenix Schedule” for the Dewey “200s” – Suggested in particular for Bahá’í Libraries..... 253
> Paul Gerard
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> Report on scholarship........................................................................ 282
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> — *Australian Baha'i Studies: Vol. 2 (Used by permission of the curator)*