Cyrus19Baha

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transcending but also respecting religious classifications

Some sources of being considered Abrahamic:

• Anna Sapir Abulafia, "The Abrahamic religions". London: British Library. 23 September 2019, https://www.bl.uk/sacred-texts/articles/the-abrahamic-religions
• Todd Lawson, "Baha'i Religious History". Journal of Religious History, Carole M. Cusack & Christopher Hartney(eds.). v36 n4.doi:10.1111/j.1467-9809.2012.01224.x. ISSN 1467-9809

Some sources of being considered Dharmic:

• Juan Cole, “A Zen Gloss on Baha'u'llah's Commentary on ‘He who knoweth his self knoweth his Lord’”, Bahai-Library.com, 1996, https://bahai-library.com/cole_commentary_knoweth_himself
• Anjam Khursheed, “The Hindu Concept of God: Unity in Diversity”, Singapore Bahá'í Studies Review, v2, 1997, pp3-49, https://bahai-library.com/khursheed_hindu_concept_god
• A. K. Merchant, “Dharma & Environment–a Viewpoint From the Baha’i Faith”, Times of India, September 2015, https://medium.com/age-of-awareness/dharma-environment-a-viewpoint-from-the-bahai-faith-7f442b90b42
• Ian Kluge, “The Baha’i Writings and the Buddhist Doctrine of Emptiness: An Initial Survey”, Lights of Irfan, v20, pp99-138; Wilmette: Haj Mehdi Arjmand Colloquium, 2019, https://bahai-library.com/lights_irfan_20

and beyond either:

• Paula Bidwell, “Many Messengers of God - A Native American Perspective Deganawidah - The Peacemaker”, Wilmette Institute, Course on the “Kitáb-i-Íqán and Gems of Divine Mysteries”, 2011, https://bahai-library.com/pdf/b/bidwell_many_messengers.pdf
• Graeme Were, "Thinking through images: Kastom and the coming of the Baha'is to Northern New Ireland, Papua New Guinea" Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. v11n4, 2005, pp659–676. DOI 10.1111/j.1467-9655.2005.00256.x. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304061119/http://www.nhbahais.com/BahaiPapers/newguinea.pdf Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016.
• Chelsea Dawn Horton, “All is one: becoming Indigenous and Baha'i in global North America", (PhD diss. University of British Columbia, Department of Graduate Studies in History, August 2013) hdl:2429/4482, https://open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/24/items/1.0074080

A problem is none of these explicitly make the point which then if summarized incorrectly result in Wikipedia:SYNTH. So it's problematic. Another problem is that from a wikipedia pov several of these sources lack standing relative to being included in wikipedia. It's also been a little bit since I verified the urls. I share them here to give you a sense that I've been looking into these things too. But some of have more standing than others. But this might be a place to get started from in making the case you are speaking of. There is also some work specifically in the Panentheism arena probably. Smkolins (talk) 12:55, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

I also highly suggest you begin in someplace like [1] and create a sandbox article to work on the syntax. Smkolins (talk) 13:02, 8 June 2023 (UTC)

And then add {{sand}} (without the nowiki syntax) as a content at the top so that it's more clearly a sandbox article in development. Smkolins (talk) 13:06, 8 June 2023 (UTC)