Pete Smith is a Canadian poet born in Coventry but resident in Kamloops, BC, since 1974. In the UK and Canada he worked as a psychiatric nurse with intellectually challenged people in institutional and community settings. His poems, reviews and essays have been published widely in the UK, the USA and Canada.
Part I. Babism: 1. The Babi Movement
2. Babi Doctrine and Dominant Motifs
3. Babism as a Socio-religious Movement in Iran
Part II. The Baha'i Faith in the East, c. 1866-1921: 4. The Babi Recovery and the Emergence of the Baha'i Faith
5. Dominant Motifs in the Baha'i Faith in the East
6. The Iranian Baha'i Community, c. 1866-1921
Part III. The Baha'i Faith as a World Religion: 7. The Early American Baha'i Community
8. Institutionalization in the Formative Age
9. Modern Baha'i Motifs
10. Worldwide Expansion
Conclusion.
