Open AccessLaura Barney’s Discipleship to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
Author(s) -
Layli Maria Miron
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the journal of bahá’í studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2563-755X
pISSN - 0838-0430
DOI - 10.31581/jbs-28.1-2.2(2018
Subject(s) - faith , rhetoric , witness , religious studies , spirituality , sociology , palestine , theology , history , philosophy , law , political science , ancient history , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology
The discipleship of the young American Laura Clifford Barney to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in the early 1900s resulted in a flow of spiritual teachings from East to West. After several years of intense engagement with her teacher in Palestine, Barney sought to disseminate in her Western homelands what she had learned. Her private and public writings demonstrate how she employed ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s teachings in her efforts to influence social discourse by promoting the Bahá’í Faith in Europe and the United States. Examining these teachings and Barney’s applications thereof in her rhetoric allows us to witness how a transnationalchannel of theological knowledge developed.