General. None. History & Social Science track. None Review questions. None. Religion track. Peter Smith. ‘The Universal House of Justice and the Baha’i World, 1963-1973’: BUHJ4d              The House and the Guardianship, pt. 3/2. 6/4. BUHJ4e              The House and the Guardianship, pt. 4. 13/4. BUHJ5a              The Hands and Related Institutions. 20/4. BUHJ5b        &nb ..read more

General. None. History & Social Science track. None Review questions. None. Religion track. Peter Smith. ‘The Universal House of Justice and the Baha’i World, 1963-1973’: BUHJ3c              The By-laws of the Constitution of the Universal House of Justice, pt. 2. 2/3. BUHJ3d              International Conventions and agencies. 9/3. BUHJ4a              The House of Justice and the Guardianship. 16 ..read more

Source: Digital Maps of the Ancient World A Map of Medieval France in 1477. : Zigeuner ..read more

One of my friends recently wrote that ‘the English language is so full of traps’. Taking him at his word, I looked up ‘traps’ on Google and got the following collection : noun INFORMAL plural noun: traps personal belongings; baggage. “I was ready to pack my traps and leave” Origin early 19th century: perhaps a contraction of trappings. noun plural noun: traps 1.a device or enclosure designed to catch and retain animals, typically by allowing entry but not exit or by catching hold of a part of the body. “the squirrels ravaged the saplings, despite the bait ..read more

General. None. History & Social Science track. None Review questions. None. Religion track. Peter Smith. ‘The Universal House of Justice and the Baha’i World, 1963-1973’: BUHJ2a        Establishment of the Universal House of Justice, pt. 1. 2/2. BUHJ2b        Establishment of the Universal House of Justice, pt. 2. 9/2. BUHJ3a        The adoption of the Constitution of the Universal House of Justice. 16/2. BUHJ3b        The By-laws of the Constitution o ..read more

This is the first of a new set of videos on my You-Tube channel: If you want to support my channel: My Patreon account: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=421658 ..read more

General. None. History & Social Science track. None Review questions. None. Religion track. Peter Smith. A Baha’i View of Human Rights’: BHR5 International Order. 5/1. BHR6 Religion. 12/1. BHR7 Family; Praxis. 19/1. Peter Smith. ‘The Universal House of Justice and the Baha’i World, 1963-1973’: BUHJ1           Introduction. 26/1. Review questions. None. If you want to support my channel: My Patreon account: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=421658 ..read more

The 4th and last of 4 seminars convened and organized by Peter Smith, then a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Lancaster, and held under the joint aegis of the Departments of Sociology and Religious Studies at the University of Lancaster. All sessions were held in the Department of Sociology. Particular thanks are due to the Department of Sociology for their support and encouragement.  Seminar programme. 4th Lancaster Baha’i Studies Seminar, 11-13 April 1980. Session 1. Moojan Momen. ‘The trial of Mulla ‘Ali Bastami: a combined Sunni-Shi’i fatwa against the B ..read more

The 3rd of 4 seminars convened and organized by Peter Smith, then a PhD student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Lancaster (this time aided by Robert Parry, then a PhD student in Lancaster’s Department of Religious Studies), and held under the joint aegis of the Departments of Sociology and Religious Studies at the University of Lancaster. Particular thanks are due to the Department of Sociology in providing a meeting room, as well as limited secretarial and financial support. The seminar was attended by academics from Belgium and the United Kingdom. All sessions were held i ..read more

A new set of videos based on an old academic paper: by Peter Smith. ‘A Baha’i View of Human Rights’ Presented at an International Symposium on the Conception of Human Rights held under the aegis of the International Sociological Association (Dubrovnik, 1985). Lightly edited for publication. Published in Mikhail Sergeev (ed.) Religion and Science in the Globalized World. A Collective Monograph. Boston: M-Graphics, 2022. A set of seven videos: 1. Introduction. 2. Economic Freedoms. 3. Political Freedoms. 4. Human Equality. 5. International Order. 6. Religion. 7. The Family, & Praxis.  T ..read more