Talk:Spiritual Assembly
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[edit] NSA/LSA
I would like to suggest that this artilce is split into two - National and local Spiritual Assemblies. This article could remain as a disambiguation page.
Any thoughts? AndrewRT 22:41, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] List of NSAs
Baha'i Library [1] has a good list of all NSAs with year of formation. I would like to include this, either here, in a new NSA article or in an article called "List of National Spiritual Assemblies". What do people think? AndrewRT 22:43, 5 February 2006 (UTC)
- I was about to split the article into separate national/local articles. I think it would be appropriate to add the link to the national article. I'm not too big on pages that begin with "List of... ", but if you think it's valuable be my guest. Cuñado
- Talk 17:10, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] stats on NSAs
I'm working on a Statistics on National Spiritual Assemblies page looking at the growing numbers, but perhaps also getting into percentages of women by some measure. I have the first part set in my sandbox - any thoughts? I haven't got the women aspect included yet. Basic stats for that can be started from _the Baha'is_ magazine which has a table/graph.--Smkolins 02:55, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
- Actually I think it would be more useful to create separate pages for Local Spiritual Assembly and National Spiritual Assembly, and redirect or disambiguate the current page. The information on NSAs can obviously fit onto the NSA page and not need a separate page. I've found that it's better to have less articles with more/better content, than to create many articles with sporadic and repeated content. Cuñado
- Talk 04:22, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
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- I don't disagree in general (though the definition of the LSA precedes that of the NSA - and both depend on the call for Houses of Justice anyway.) I didn't come up with the stats page as a result of looking at the commentary here though. I did see small references to the idea but thought the theme had a far greater extent - it looks at many issues that are lost looking at the Baha'i Faith at the bottom of the administation and the top only. One section I'm looking at adding is the percentages of women as I mentioned above - that's an important example of something Baha'is advocate (the prominance, if that's the word, of women) that gets somewhat lost at the local level and gets complicated at the top but can really hold it's water in the middle.--Smkolins 12:53, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Major Changes
Eliminated “leadership” from “elected leadership councils that govern the Bahá'í Faith” because it seemed redundant and possibly confusing. Added a sentence about the Faith having no clergy to the first paragraph to provide context for their importance. Changed the parenthesis to explain what “national” could mean (it could refer to part of a country, like Alaska, or a group of countries).
Added sections on “Origins: Local Spiritual Assembly” and “Origins: National Spiritual Assembly,” to explain how the institution arose. It clarifies and corrects the reason for the designation “local spiritual assembly” (which has nothing to do with the issue of maturity). I eliminated the list of National Spiritual Assemblies because I was able to provide the complete 1928 list. I dropped the list of 1927 members of the American/Canadian National Spiritual Assembly, as the information seems of insufficient importance.
A section on “Purpose and Functioning of Spiritual Assemblies” still needs to be added.
RHStockman 18:47, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
