Regional Spiritual Council

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The Regional Spiritual Council represents the regional administrative level of a Baha'i community within a country in which Baha'i live. This council is responsible for the communities under it in the respective country at the regional level.

Regional spiritual councils can perform their tasks either on the level between the local spiritual council and the national spiritual council or on a supranational level in more sparsely populated regions of the world. For example, there is a Regional Spiritual Council for all of Central Asia . At the supranational level, these councils serve as pioneers for independent national spiritual councils and at the local level for independent local spiritual councils.

The regional spiritual assemblies are not to be confused with regional councils , whose members are appointed by the national spiritual council and support it with the regional supervision of certain tasks. Only the latter are also available in Germany.

literature

  • Shoghi Effendi : Bahá'í Administration . Bahá'í Publishing Trust, Wilmette, Illinois, USA 2000, ISBN 0-87743-166-3 ( online ).
  • Shoghi Effendi: Principles of Bahá'í Administration . Bahá'í Publishing Trust, London, UK 1976, ISBN 0-900125-13-6 .
  • Emanuel V. Towfigh: The legal constitution of religious communities. An investigation using the example of the Baha'i . Mohr Siebeck, Bonn 2006, ISBN 3-16-148847-4 .