Lights of the Spirit Roderic Maude during the terrible persecutions of

during the terrible persecutions of the Bábís

impaired judgment and diminished compassion

Stressing the exalted role of motherhood and the equality of women and men

the Faith has "induced a fermentation in the general life of mankind designed to shake the very foundations of a disordered society

and maps those ideas onto concrete practices: procedures for self-knowledge

Lights of the Spirit Roderic Maude during the terrible persecutions ofRarely does a book cover a historically and culturally important topic that has never been written about before. Yet Lights of the Spirit accomplishes precisely this through an absorbing collection of glimpses into the lives of some extraordinary individuals who devoted themselves to a common cause and made outstanding contributions toward building a unified society. Edited by Gwendolyn Etter Lewis, a professor of English at Miami University in Ohio,