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  1. Posted 2022-03-27, in Book Reviews:   Pierre-Yves Mocquais. Unité dans la diversité — les religions au service de la verité, by O. P. Ghai: Review, in Journal of Bahá'í Studies 1:4 (1989). [about]
  2. Posted 2022-03-27, in Book Reviews:   Dawn K. Smith. Way to Inner Freedom: A Practical Guide to Personal Development, by Erik Blumenthal: Review, in Journal of Bahá'í Studies 2:1 (1989). [about]
  3. Posted 2022-03-26, in Published Articles:   Mina Yazdani. `Abdu'l-Bahá and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution: Embracing Principles while Disapproving Methodologies, in Journal of Bahá'í Studies 24:1-2 (2014). Abdu’l-Bahá’s orientation toward the Constitutional Revolution of 1906–1911: he embraced the principles of constitutionalism while disapproving of confrontation; real social change needs to start at the moral-ethical level. [about]
  4. Posted 2022-03-26, in Book Reviews:   Julie Badiee. Drawings, Verse, and Belief, by Bernard Leach: Review, in Journal of Bahá'í Studies 1:3 (1989). [about]
  5. Posted 2022-03-26, in Published Articles:   Vahid Rafati. Evolving Role of Bahá'í Scholarship, The, in Journal of Bahá'í Studies 25:1-2 (2015). Lecture on the evolution of Bahá’í scholarship; ulamás and the Faith; role of the ulamás in Islam; changes instituted by Bahá'u'lláh; abolition of clerical authority; historical legacy of some scholars; present challenges and future scholarship. [about]
  6. Posted 2022-03-26, in Book Reviews:   Geza Farkas. God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible, by Adam Nicolson: Review, in Journal of Bahá'í Studies 15:1-4 (2005). [about]
  7. Posted 2022-03-26, in Published Articles:   Layli Miller-Muro. Knowledge into Action: The Bahá'í Imperative to Serve Humanity, in Journal of Bahá'í Studies 24:1-2 (2014). On the history of experience and evolution in thinking regarding social action in the Bahá’í community; the Tahirih Justice Center’s experience as one example of such learning; the culture of service we must embody. [about]
  8. Posted 2022-03-26, in Published Articles:   Douglas Martin. Next Stage, The, in Journal of Bahá'í Studies 23:1-4 (2013). Bahá'í scholars find themselves at a stage in the Faith’s development where they must construct a discourse that is free of "haughty intellectualism." The Association for Bahá’í Studies can help promote the Bahá'í cause to institutions of higher learning. [about]
  9. Posted 2022-03-26, in Biographies:   Robert E. Hayden and Douglas Ruhe. Place of Poetry in Religion and Society, The: An Interview of Robert E. Hayden with Douglas Ruhe, in Journal of Bahá'í Studies 24:3-4 (2014). Introduction by Hatcher to the life of Hayden (2014); transcript of a talk between Hayden and Douglas Ruhe in 1975 on the future of poetry, transcendence, American destiny, important American poets, the Library of Congress, and Bahá'í spirituality. [about]
  10. Posted 2022-03-26, in Published Articles:   Roshan Danesh. Reflections on the Concept of Law in the Bahá'í Faith, Some, in Journal of Bahá'í Studies 24:1-2 (2014). The concept of law in the Bahá’í Faith; its early Islamic context; the nature of legal language and discourse in Bahá’u’lláh’s writings. Religious law, rooted in conscious knowledge and the dynamics of love, rejects rigid and legalistic rules. [about]
  11. Posted 2022-03-26, in Book Reviews:   Dwight Bashir. Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention: A Fresh Legal Approach Based on Fundamental Ethical Principles in International Law and World Religions, by Brian Lepard: Review, in Journal of Bahá'í Studies 14:1-2 (2004). [about]
  12. Posted 2022-03-26, in Book Reviews:   Gilbert Bartholomew. Science and Religion: Towards the Restoration of an Ancient Harmony, by Anjam Khursheed: Review, in Journal of Bahá'í Studies 1:1 (1988). [about]
  13. Posted 2022-03-26, in Book Reviews:   John Danesh. Selections from the Writings of E. G. Browne on the Bábí and Bahá'í Religions, ed. Moojan Momen: Review, in Journal of Bahá'í Studies 1:3 (1989). [about]
  14. Posted 2022-03-26, in Published Articles:   Sharon Nur Hatcher. Spirituality in Medicine: Reflections of a Bahá'í Physician, in Journal of Bahá'í Studies 25:4 (2015). A self-reflective piece by a family physician and educator; personal experiences and challenges with patients, students, and colleagues related to the integration of spirituality into medicine. [about]
  15. Posted 2022-03-26, in Book Reviews:   Susan Lamb. Unity: The Creative Foundation of Peace, by H. B. Danesh: Review, in Journal of Bahá'í Studies 1:1 (1988). [about]
  16. Posted 2022-03-25, in Essays and short articles:   Boris Handal. Birth of Radio Bahá'í of Lake Titicaca in Peru, The, in Bahá'í News (1981). On a momentous international Bahá'í teaching project linking the sister communities of Peril and Bolivia. [about]
  17. Posted 2022-03-25, in Essays and short articles:   Boris Handal. Covenant of Bahá'u'lláh, The, in Australian Bahá'í Bulletin (2008). Overview of the Bahá'í Covenant, the nature of Covenant-breaking, and the spiritual foundation for being firm in such a fundamental principle. [about]
  18. Posted 2022-03-25, in Introductory:   Boris Handal. Teaching Bahá'í History in Schools: A Resource Material (2010). A self-contained lesson addressing the history and growth of the Faith and the lives of the Báb and Bahá’u’lláh, designed for primary-school students in the broader community; contains learning objectives, learning activities, and audio-visual resources. [about]
  19. Posted 2022-03-21, in Essays and short articles:   Boris Handal. Finding the Lamp: My Bahá'í Experience, in Catholics and Catholicism in contemporary Australia: challenges and achievements ed. Abe Ata (2012). A personal adventure of faith, influenced by a background where faith and reason talked to each other, and an oriental ethnic heritage and curiosity for Eastern cultures; thoughts on inclusive spiritual agendas for the future. [about]
  20. Posted 2022-03-21, in Essays and short articles:   Boris Handal. Loving 'Abdu'l-Bahá and Understanding His Station, in The Australian Bahá'í (2021). Early Bahá’ís in the West struggled to understand the station of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, the Mystery of God. [about]
  21. Posted 2022-03-20, in Published Articles:   Boris Handal. Global Scholars as Ambassadors of Knowledge, in Academic Migration, Discipline Knowledge and Pedagogical Practice: Voices from the Asia Pacific eds. F. Rawling and C. Mason (2013). Global scholars can face challenges interacting with peers and with the community of their destination cultures, but can become agents of social change due to their unique overseas positions, and teach global citizenship, moral leadership, and unity. [about]
  22. Posted 2022-03-20, in Essays and short articles:   Boris Handal. Metaphors in Education (2008). Knowledge is associated with the development of spiritual capabilities such as justice, confidence, patience, service, etc. Educational research and its methodologies are a vehicle to find knowledge and a tool to help us achieve our highest selves. [about]
  23. Posted 2022-03-18, in Books:   یادگار جشن پنجاهمین سال تاسیس محفل مقدس بهائیان طهران 55-103: Commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Bahá'í Assembly of Tehran B.E. 55-103 (1947). Booklet and collection of historical photographs published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Local Spiritual Assembly of Tihran, published B.E. 103 (1947). Includes partial English translation (2022). [about]
  24. Posted 2022-03-18, in Published Articles:   Daniel Azim Pschaida. Bahá'u'lláh's 'Long Healing Prayer' ("Lawḥ-i-Anta'l-Káfí") in Light of a Metaphysics of Unity, in Journal of Bahá'í Studies 31:3 (2022). On the originality and deep coherence of this prayer as expressed by its rhyme, alliterations, and structures organized around the number 19; the prayer is an invitation to meditate on God’s names, and see reality in a metaphysics of wholeness and unity. [about]
  25. Posted 2022-03-18, in Study Guides:   Kitáb-i-Íqán: The Book of Certitude, by Bahá'u'lláh: Interlinear Presentation (2022). Parallel translations of Ali Kuli Khan (1904) and the authorized one by Shoghi Effendi (1931), and the Persian text. [about]
  26. Posted 2022-03-17, in Published Articles:   Joshua Hall. Bahá'u'lláh and the God of Avicenna, in Journal of Bahá'í Studies 31:3 (2022). Comparison of the teachings of Bahá’u’lláh on the nature of God with the philosophy of Avicenna; this helps one understand the philosophical content and significance, and rational rigor, of Bahá’u’lláh’s own statements on God’s existence and creative act. [about]
  27. Posted 2022-03-17, in Published Articles:   Vargha Taefi. Beyond Welfare: A Preliminary Bahá'í Normative Framework for Economic Rights and Responsibilities, in Journal of Bahá'í Studies 31:1-2 (2022). The conceptual underpinnings of a Bahá’í approach to economic growth and disparity, mapped onto an applied framework of economic rights and responsibilities, give rise to economic justice and individual and institutional rights and responsibilities. [about]
  28. Posted 2022-03-17, in Book excerpts:   Julia Berger. Ideas, Religion, and Social Change, in Rethinking Religion and Politics in a Plural World: The Bahá'í International Community and the United Nations (2021). Links to a book chapter and video presentation and presentation notes (offsite) presented for the Joint Learning Initiative on Faith & Local Communities, on meaning-making processes driving NGO behavior and the Bahá'í Faith's pursuit of social change. [about]
  29. Posted 2022-03-17, in Published Articles:   Bayan Jalalizadeh. Need for an Integrative Conceptual Framework for Addressing Mental Health Challenges During the COVID-19 Pandemic, The, in Journal of Bahá'í Studies 31:1-2 (2022). Overview of the state of mental health and illness in the world during the Covid pandemic, summary of the prevailing frameworks and practices, and a potential framework which could guide a response to current mental health challenges. [about]
  30. Posted 2022-03-17, in Published Articles:   Paul Lample. Reflections on the Challenge of Our Age, in Journal of Bahá'í Studies 31:1-2 (2022). On how Bahá'ís expect to search for truth and build a just and peaceful world through the conscious transformation of the moral order — not by force or coercion but by example, persuasion, and cooperation. [about]
  31. Posted 2022-03-15, in Maps:   Bahá'í World News Service. List and Map of 114 Youth Conferences in 2013 (2013). List of pages at bahai.org (offsite) with reports, descriptions, and videos of youth events across the globe. The accompanying map gives an impression of the spread of the worldwide Bahá'í community. [about]
  32. Posted 2022-03-13, in Biographies:   Boris Handal. In Memoriam: Salomon Pacora Estrada (Pacora Blue Mountain) 1899-1969 (2022). Short bio of the first known Bahá'í of Inca descent, who served as a pioneer in Ecuador. [about]
  33. Posted 2022-03-11, in Bahá'í Writings:   'Abdu'l-Bahá à Londres (1996). [about]
  34. Posted 2022-03-11, in Essays and short articles:   Brent Poirier. Lists of Articles (2009). Lists of 126 articles at the author's six blog websites. [about]
  35. Posted 2022-03-10, in Letters from the Universal House of Justice:   Universal House of Justice. Update of "Additional Tablets" by 'Abdu'l-Bahá; Permanency of URLs on bahai.org (2022). Answers to two questions: the PDF at bahai.org for "Additional Tablets, Extracts and Talks" will be updated, and website addresses (URLs) at bahai.org are permanent and can reliably be cited. [about]
  36. Posted 2022-03-06, in Published Articles:   Robert K. Arbuthnot. Bab and Babeeism, The: Part 2, in Contemporary Review Volume XII (1969). Part two of an early, relatively lengthy overview of Bábí history and theology. [about]
  37. Posted 2022-03-03, in Book Reviews:   Christopher Buck. 175 Years of Persecution: A History of the Bábís and Bahá'ís of Iran, by Fereydun Vahman: Review (2021). [about]
  38. Posted 2022-03-03, in Book Reviews:   Christopher Buck. Philosophic Values and World Citizenship: Locke to Obama and Beyond, ed. Jacoby Adeshai Carter and Leonard Harris: Review, in Bahá'í Studies Review 18 (2012). [about]
  39. Posted 2022-03-03, in Book Reviews:   Christopher Buck. The Bahá'ís of America: The Growth of a Religious Movement, by Mike McMullen: Review (2017). [about]
  40. Posted 2022-03-03, in Book Reviews:   Christopher Buck. The Development of the Bábí/Bahá'í Communities: Exploring Baron Rosen's Archives, by Youli Ioannesyan: Review, in Nova Religio 18:4 (2015). [about]
  41. Posted 2022-03-02, in Letters from the Universal House of Justice:   Universal House of Justice. Persian Manuscript of Nabíl's History (Táríkh-i-Nabíl), The (2009). Answers to various questions, including: have any publications made use of the original manuscript used by Shoghi Effendi for The Dawn-Breakers; can scholars inspect the one surviving copy; does a corrected version or a "second manuscript" exist? [about]
  42. Posted 2022-03-01, in Published Articles:   Iraj Ghanooni. 'Abdu'l-Bahá on the World Stage (2022). A contrast of the spiritual purpose of ‘Abdu'l-Bahá's first visit to Paris with the secular aims of some famous Iranian contemporaries who went there around the same time; includes philosophical discussions and an analysis of two talks by ‘Abdu'l-Bahá. [about]
  43. Posted 2022-03-01, in Letters from the Universal House of Justice:   Universal House of Justice. Bahá'í Attitude towards Celebration of Christmas (2002). A clarification on whether Baha’is are permitted to celebrate Christmas: believers should not be deterred from participating in festivities in which the religious meaning has, over time, given way to purely culturally-oriented practices. [about]
  44. Posted 2022-03-01, in Essays and short articles:   Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Glasgow. Eco-Pledge (2021). An illustrated booklet of environmental actions individuals and communities can take, presented as a tool to reflect on and enable practical action towards sustainable use of the world’s material resources; includes quotations from the Writings. [about]
  45. Posted 2022-02-28, in Personal compilations:   Compilation on All of Humanity Embracing the Bahá'í Faith, A (2022). [about]
  46. Posted 2022-02-28, in Letters from the Universal House of Justice:   Universal House of Justice. Permissibility of Chinese New Year Celebrations and Cultural Prostrations (2019). Permissibility of observing Chinese New Year; prostrating is permissible for cultures in which prostrations do not signify submission or humiliation, but are merely gestures of respect or politeness. [about]
  47. Posted 2022-02-27, in Bahá'í Writings:   Abdu'l-Bahá. Causeries d'Abdu'l-Bahá à Paris (1987). [about]
  48. Posted 2022-02-26, in Personal compilations:   Guidance for Bahá'í Radio from the Bahá'í World Centre (1990). Selection of guidance received from the Bahá'í World Centre on Bahá'í radio from May, 1980 to December, 1989, on four major themes: administration; programming, training and production; finance and technical matters. [about]
  49. Posted 2022-02-26, in Bahá'í Writings:   Báb, The. Sélection des Écrits du Báb (1984). [about]
  50. Posted 2022-02-25, in Newspaper articles:   Manya A. Brachear. Bahá'í Schism Battles It out in Court, in Chicago Tribune (2009). Short article touching on a lawsuit to prevent covenant-breakers from using the word "Bahá'í" and "The Greatest Name." [about]
  51. Posted 2022-02-25, in Archives:   International Conference on Bahá'í Libraries and Archives (2003). Conference convened at Landegg International University for people to share experiences, learn about best practices, and begin developing a structure for world interaction among those who handle and organize Bahá’í library and archival materials. [about]
  52. Posted 2022-02-25, in Presentations:   Reference Desk, The: Projects that Support Bahá'í Scholarship in the Digital Age (2022). 13 presentations on how digital technologies are supporting Bahá’í scholarship. Webmasters, bibliographers, genealogists, and archivists speak about their journey in reference projects: origins, progress, and insights into how their projects are used. [about]
  53. Posted 2022-02-24, in Letters from the Universal House of Justice:   Universal House of Justice. Term Limits for Members of Spiritual Assemblies (2022). Quotations from Shoghi Effendi and the Universal House of Justice on matters regarding Bahá'í elections, and why there are no term limits for members of Bahá'í assemblies. [about]
  54. Posted 2022-02-22, in Personal compilations:   Báb, The and Bahá'u'lláh. Divine Art of Living, The (1944). Collection of thematically arranged quotations. [about]
  55. Posted 2022-02-22, in Videos:   Brett Zamir. Efficient Searches and Shortcuts (2022). A series of videos introducing rationales for, and details on use of, browser keyword shortcuts with the Bahá'í Writings [about]
  56. Posted 2022-02-22, in Videos:   Brett Zamir. TextBrowser, Bahaiwritings, and Bahai-browser.org: Web apps for browsing the Bahá'í Writings with customizability (2022). Tutorial videos on an experimental web app to browse Writings with high customizability and in parallel. [about]
  57. Posted 2022-02-21, in Chronologies/genealogies:   Donald Osborn and Vicky Majewski. Genealogies of Bahá'ís on WikiTree (2022). Links to online genealogies, and a video presentation "Using the tools of genealogy." [about]
  58. Posted 2022-02-17, in Presentations:   Luca Forconi. Lo sviluppo socio-economico della comunità bahá'í (2022). Panoramica sull’azione sociale baha’i con gran parte dei contenuti estratti e tradotti dal documento "For the Betterment of the World" (OSED / BIC, 2018), integrati da alcuni cenni alla letteratura in ambito economico. [about]
  59. Posted 2022-02-17, in Unpublished Articles:   William F. McCants. Multivalent Mahdihood: Karim Khan Kirmani's Early Critique of the Multiple Claims of the Bab (2003). Shaykhi critiques of the Qayyum al-asma; the nature of the Báb's gradually unfolding claims, first as a báb to imam and qá'ím and finally prophethood; the Báb's concept of religious authority. [about]
  60. Posted 2022-02-17, in Published Articles:   Oleg Kyselov. К вопросу о типологии и классификации веры бахаи: On Typology and Classification of the Bahá'í Faith, in Essays on Religious Studies 2 (2011). An attempt to classify the Bahá'í Faith from a perspective of the sociology of religion and Marxism. [about]
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