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020			_a0-933770-16-2
040			_cNew Zealand National Baha'i Reference Library
245	1	0	_aMusic, Devotions, and Mashriqu'l-Adhkár
260			_aLos Angeles _bKalimat Press _c1987
300			_axviii, 390 p.
440			_aStudies in the Babi and Baha’i Religions _gAnthony Lee General Editor _v4 _9740
505			_aThis book offers an in-depth and scholarly examination of the development of music and devotional life within the American Bahá’í community through the lens of the Chicago community from its beginnings in the 1890s to the mid-1980s. The book relates the early history of the use of music and devotions among the early Bahá’ís of Chicago, the development of Bahá’í hymns, the opposition to their use, and their eventual abandonment. He then turns his attention to the Mashriqu’l-Adhkár, the Bahá’í Temple, in Wilmette, Illinois; the history of the design, construction of the Temple, and controversies which surrounded both. Finally, he examines worship in the Temple since its dedication in 1953. It is an absorbing study and vital addition to the library of any student of Bahá’í history.
520	3		_aAn examination of the development of musical and devotional life in the American Bahá'í community, particularly the growth and eventual abandonment of Bahá'í hymnology, and the nature of worship in the Wilmette temple.
650		0	_9244 _aMusic _vBaha'i Faith
650		0	_989 _aMashriqu’l-Adhkár _vBaha'i Faith
650		0	_aHouses of Worship _vBaha'i Faith _9485
650		0	_91006 _aMusicians _vBaha'i Faith
700			_aR. Jackson Armstrong-Ingham _91274
942			_2ddc _cBOOK
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