Music, Devotions, and Mashriqu’l-Adhkár
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Contents[edit]
PART ONE: The Devotional Heritage
- Chapter One: From the East
- (i) Eastern Bahá’í Devotional Practice
- (ii) The Mashriqu’l-Adhkár in the Eastern Bahá’í Community
- (iii) Eastern Chant and Western Bahá’ís
- Chapter Two: Early Devotions and the Music of Louise Waite
- (i) Early Bahá’í Devotions in Chicago
- (ii) Louise Waite
- (iii) Bahá’í Hymns of Peace and Praise
- Chapter Three: Bahá’í Hymnody in Community Life
- (i) The Absorption of Waite’s Hymns into Bahá’í Community Life
- (ii) Other Bahá’í Hymnodists
- Chapter Four: Opposition to the Use of Hymns
- (i) Early Objections
- (ii) The End of the Era of Bahá’í Hymnody
PART TWO: The Building
- Chapter Five: The Choice of a Site and the Development of National Organization
- (i) The Choice of a Site
- (ii) The Bahai Temple Unity
- Chapter Six: The Bourgeois Design
- (i) The Choice of the Design
- (ii) The Development of the Design
- (iii) Further Comments on the Development of the Design
- (iv) The Legitimation of the Design
- (v) Opposition to the Design
- (vi) The Implementation of the Design
PART THREE: The Practice
- Chapter Seven: Choral Song and Sermonizing in Wilmette
- (i) The Vahid Choral Society
- (ii) Early Uses of Foundation Hall
- (iii) Developments in the 1930s
- (iv) “High Church” Bahá’í Practice
- Chapter Eight: The Mashriqu’l-Adhkár in Use
- (i) The Auditorium Dedications
- (ii) Post-1953 Practice
- Chapter Nine: Scripture and Culture in the Development of Western Bahá’í Devotional Practice
