The Danes, The Vikings And The Baha’is

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  1. RonPrice

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    THE DANES THE VIKINGS AND THE BAHA’IS​




    The Bahá'í Faith in Denmark began in 1925, but it was not until the arrival of American Baha’i pioneers in 19461 that the Baha’i community in Denmark began to grow. I was a child of two in Canada at the time and Canada had about 120 Bahá’ís. When I joined the Baha’i Faith in 1959 at the age of fifteen, Denmark was becoming the home of a few Iranian Bahá'ís. The year my pioneering life began at the age of eighteen in 1962 I was a part of the Canadian Baha’i community’s homefront teaching and consolidation program. In that same year the Danish National Spiritual Assembly was formed. There were over sixty Baha’is in Denmark at the time and Canada had just gone over the thousand mark.

    With the arrival of Iranian Bahá'í refugees in the quarter century, 1979 to 2004, and some Danes becoming Bahá’ís, the Baha’i community in Denmark rose to over 300. Some credit for this increase in the number of Baha’is in Denmark must be given to the American pioneers, say some commentators. Some Danes were attracted to what these same commentators have called the cultural style of these American pioneers, that is, their emancipated, independent, and idealistic attitudes and behaviour.2

    The Baha’i community in Denmark spread beyond urban centres like Copenhagen and Aarhus into some of the rural areas of the nearly 100 municipalities. According to some observers there is now a mix of liberal and conservative world views that have come to exist in the Danish Bahá'í community.3 By 2004 I had completed a thirty year teaching career, had been married for forty-one years, had raised three children and had retired from FT and PT work. –Ron Price with thanks to 1Peter Smith, "Baha’is in the West," Kalimat Press, pp. 228-63; 2Graham Hassall and Seena Fazel, "
    100 Years of the Bahá'í Faith in Europe", Bahá’í Studies Review 1998, pp. 35-44; and 3Margit Warburg, "Baha’i: A Religious Approach to Globalization," Social Compass, 1999, V.46, N.1, pp. 47-56.


    The home of Hans Christian Andersen
    The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Ugly
    Duckling,the Nobel laureate physicist
    Niels Bohr, the comedic pianist Victor
    Borge and the philosopher Kierkegaard.

    The first country to legalize pornography
    and to grant same-sex couples nearly all
    of the rights and responsibilities of marriage.
    The home of 1419 islands of which 443 had
    names. This made for a long coastline and
    nowhere was farther from the coast than 32
    miles. The size of the land area of Denmark
    cannot be stated exactly since the ocean is
    always eroding the coastline and there are
    always human land reclamation projects.

    The earliest archeological findings date back
    to 130,000 BP in the Eem interglacial period.
    People have inhabited Denmark since 14,500
    BP with agriculture in evidence from 5,900 BP.
    The Nordic Bronze Age of 1800 to 600 BC was
    marked by burial mounds. During the 8th to the
    11th centuries the Danes were known as Vikings
    and the Bahá’ís, well, their story is only 83 years
    old in this Scandinavian region of northern Europe,
    this southernmost of all the Nordic Countries.

    Ron Price
    19 May 2008
     
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