A Study of the Book “Century of Light”

Welcome to the homepage for an online course on the book “Century of Light”.

This is a structured course at the undergraduate level, and this page provides pointers for all support material for the course. Since this page is intended for a private study by a class, relevant materials that are available online at other sites are mirrored at this site, with appropriate acknowledgements, for ease of reference and for the sake of completeness. Many more references exist that are either repetitive, technical or minor in nature and these have been omitted.

This page will be periodically updated as the course progresses. The course duration will be from September 1^st to December 7^th 2003. Participants are from Southern African countries. Some have local study groups while others participate individually.

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Course Home Page
The Course	Text of The Century of Light
Invitation Welcome How to Register List of Participants The Syllabus in MS Word format (this is a long file for download and saving locally) The Syllabus and course arrangements Thematic Questions Reading Assignments Study Programme Weekly Study Schedule Paragraph Numbering Study Guide Summary, Lesson Plan Project Information Levels of Study Reporting Forms Final Note	The Full Text in PDF format The Full Text in MS Word Introduction and Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V Part VI Part VII Part VIII Part IX Part X Part XI Part XII If you have an earlier version of the book this errata will be useful
Reading Materials	Comments about the Text
· An Outline of the Text · United Nations Millennium Declaration · Course units · Time line for the 20^th Century · President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points · Bahá’í time line for the 20^th century – by Dr. Ahmadi · This useful link was contributed by Eddie Hall: http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm	· Europe at the end of the Nineteenth Century · A Study Guide presented as the course final project by Belinda Forsee · A Summary of the Century of Light by Robert Sarracino · Vindicating Vincent presented as the course final project by Eddie Hall
Issues Raised by the Participants	Answers to Exercise Questions Given by the Participants
· Introductions – by most participants · Comments about unity – by Aazam Binazir · Comments on loss of Volition – by Eddie Hall · Comments on the Battle of Light and Darkness – by Sharma Gopaul · Baha'u'llah's prophecy about International Organizations – from Dr. Ahmadi · Closing thoughts - from Iran Sohaili	· Responses to Unit 2 Exercise Questions – by Phil Christensen , Sharma Gopaul, Alyssa Wong , and Belinda Forsee · Reflections – by Charmain January · Response to Unit 4 Questions – by Belinda Forsee · Response to Unit 5 Questions – by Sharma Gopaul · Response to Unit 5 Optional Questions – by Sharma Gopaul · Response to Unit 5 Questions – by Belinda Forsee · Response to Unit 5 Questions – by Alyssa Wong · Response to Unit 6 Questions – by Belinda Forsee · Comments on Knowledge – by Eddie Hall · Response to Unit 6 Questions - by Sharma Gopaul · Response to pages 58-70 – by Charmain January · Response to Unit 8 Questions - by Sharma Gopaul · Response to Unit 8 Questions - by Eddie Hall · Response to Unit 7 Questions - by Enayat and Iran Sohaili · A comment on spiritual inspiration – by Sharma Gopaul · Response to Unit 10 Questions - by Sharma Gopaul · Response to Unit 10 Questions - by Fred Wong · Response to Unit 11 Questions - by Sharma Gopaul · Response to Unit 12 Questions - by Sharma Gopaul · Response to Unit 8 Questions – by Belinda Forsee · Response to Unit 10 Questions – by Belinda Forsee · Response to Unit 12 Questions – by Charmain January · Response to Unit 12 Thematic Questions - by Sharma Gopaul