Studies in the Babi and Baha'i Religions, Volume Eighteen with an introductory essay by Leonard Harris, Ph.D.

One of the towering figures of African American history is Alain Locke--first black Rhodes Scholar, Harvard Ph.D., professor at Howard University, dean of the Harlem Renaissance. Many books have been written about his contributions to black art and culture in the United States.

These books have generally ignored the fact that Locke was a Baha'i. This book fills in that missing link, telling the story of Locke's services to the Cause from 1918 until his death in 1954.

Distributed by Kalimat Press as Volume 22 of the series Studies in the Babi and Baha'i Religions.

In this volume of the RENNER series on new religions, the issue of religion and globalisation is treated with a single religion as the recurring example. The Baha'i Faith has been carefully chosen for this context. Few other religions express so clearly in their doctrines the view that the world should be unified, politically and religiously. These globalist views can clearly be traced historically all the way back to the origin of the religion in Iran in the mid-nineteenth centuary. The Baha'i religion developed with the emerging globalisation in the second half of the nineteenth century, and the Baha'i interaction with the globalised world suggests a general pattern for many religions. Likewise, globalisation presents the Baha'i organisation with new challenges.

The book contains a selection of fifteen contributions from an international group of scholars studying the Baha'i religion. In preparing for the symposium that preceded this book, they were all challenged with the task of writing on Baha'i and globalisation, using their different academic backgrounds and their particular expertise in the history and sociology of teh Baha'i religion. The outcome of this exercise is the first comprehensive treatment of the Baha'i religion viewed in the light of globalisation.

Studies in the Bábí and Bahá'í Religions: Volume 14

In ground-breaking essays, eight scholars probe the early history of the Bahá'í Faith in the West. In each case, this original research widens and changes our understanding of those crucial years of development. Peter Smith undertakes an analysis of Bahá'í growth and expansion in Western countries. Moojan Momen uncovers a similar analysis of the spread of the Faith written by John Esslemont in 1920. Gyorgy Lederer investgates 'Abdu'l-Bahá's visit to Budapest, Jackson Armstrong-Ingram takes a second look at "extraneous" events at an American national Bahá'í convention, and Loni Bramson discusses the first plans of Unified Action undertaken in the Bahá'í world. The fist academic treatments of the beginnings of the Faith in three nations are also included: Graham Hassal on Australia, Margit Warburg researches Denmark Bahá'ís, and Ismael Velasco discusses the first Bahá'í community in Scotland.

Studies in the Bábí and Bahá'í Religions: Volume 6

Seven Bahá'í historians explore the histories of selected local Bahá'í communities in the United States, Britain and Canada. Each author's research has uncovered aspects of Bahá'í history which have never before been discussed in print. Articles included are: * Bahá'í Communities in the West, by Richard Hollinger; * A History of the Kenosha Bahá'í Community, 1897-1980, by Roger Dahl; * The Bahá'í Faith in Kansas, 1897-1947, by Duane L. Herrmann; * The Bahá'ís of Baltimore, 1898-1990, by Deb Clark; * The Development and Influence of the Bahá'í Administrative Order in Great Britain, 1914-1950, by Phillip R. Smith; * The Development and Decline of an Early Bahá'í Community: Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, 1910-1925, by Will C. van den Hoonard; * A History of the Sacramento Bahá'í Community, 1912-1991, by Peggy Caton.

Studies in the Bábí and Bahá'í Religions: Volume 10

Sub-titled 'Key Symbols in Persian Christianity and the Bahá'í Faith', this book has been well received in the academic world, and has been described as 'an extremely powerful contribution to an important part of comparative religions', a 'useful and revealing account' of Bahá'í symbology, which will establish its author as a major scholarly author. Its purpose is to compare the symbologies of pre-Muslim Persian Christianity with those found in the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, especially the family of symbols having to do with paradise. Published by a prestigious academic institution, and distributed by Kalimát Press as volume ten in the series, 'Studies in the Bábí and Bahá'í Religions'.

Studies in the Bábí and Bahá'í Religions: Volume 13

This publication brings together essays reflecting current thought among Bahá'í scholars about the most challenging and controversial issues facing the Bahá'í community today. Essays in this volume fall under the headings 'Interpreting Principles', 'Understanding Texts', and 'Applying the Teachings', and authors cover topics such as infallible institutions, theocratic assumptions in Bahá'í literature, prayer as remembrance, a consideration of scripture as literature, fundamentalism and liberalism, Bahá'í approaches to economics, and the education of women. As a forum for 'New Directions in Bahá'í Thought', Reason and Revelation will undoubtedly provide a stimulating read for any Bahá'í wishing to remain current in Bahá'í discourse. This is volume thirteen in the series, Studies in the Bábí and Bahá'í Religions.

Studies in the Bábí and Bahá'í Religions: Volume 8

Studies in the Bábí and Bahá'í Religions: Volume 15

Eight essays by various scholars widen our understanding of the ethical implications of Bahá'í scripture and Bahá'í history. Read this collection of essays as a pioneering work - a first attempt to give coherence and form to a system of Bahá'í ethics as it might exist in theory and in practice.