The oneness of religion is a core principle of Bahá’u’lláh’s teachings. The following is an incomplete introduction. The principle is perhaps also one of the most widely misunderstood of Bahá’u’lláh’s teachings. In one form, the misunderstanding is that it involves in some sense “combining” different religions or taking elements from different religions to create a new religion. This is not at all the meaning of oneness of religion. It is easier perhaps to understand the concept if we think of the term “religion” in the phrase “oneness of religion” as not referring so much to individual religions (such as Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, or the Baha’i Faith) as to the phenomenon of religion as…