The Gardeners of God

The Gardeners of God

"The Gardeners of God", subtitled "An Encounter with Five Million Bahais". Originally published in French under the title "Les Jardiniers de Dieu" by Berg International and Tacor International in 1989. The English edition was published by Oneworld Publications in 1993. This is the account of two French journalists, Colette Gouvion and Philippe Jouvion, determined to conduct an objective and unbiased study of the Bahá'í Faith. They travelled to the Bahá'í World Centre in Haifa, Israel and interviewed Bahá'ís from all over the world with strikingly different backgrounds. The authors discovered that the Bahá'ís proclaimed women's rights decades before the suffragettes, advocated world unity before Woodrow Wilson, called for a global peace-keeping force before the UN, and established a tradition of non-violence nearly a century before Gandhi. The early years of the religion were marked by violent persecutions claiming thousands of lives - and in many parts of the world Bahá'ís are still suffering today.

References

*Gouvion, Colette and Philippe Jouvion. "The Gardeners of God: an encounter with five million Bahai’ís" (Originally published in French as "Jardiniers de Dieu" Oxford : Oneworld, 1993, ISBN 1-85168-052-7


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