The following is a partially annotated English language bibliography of Bábí-Bahá'í studies in non-Bahá'í academic sources.(1)
A Abizadeh, "Informational constraint and focal point convergence: theoretical implications of plurality-rule elections for the new institutionalism," Rationality and Society 13.1 (2000): 99-136.
A Amanat, "The Resurgence of Apocalyptic in Modern Islam," in The Encyclopedia of Apocalypticism (New York: Continuum, 1998) III: 230-264.
A Bausani. Religion in Iran: From Zoroaster to Bahá'u'lláh (New York: Bibliotheca Persica Press, 2000).
JRI Cole, "Autobiography and silence: the early career of Shaykh al-Rais Qajar," in Iran im 19. Jahrhundert und die Entstehung der Bahá'í-Religion, ed. JC Burgel and I Schayani (Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 1998) 91-126.
______. "The Bahá'í Faith in America as Panopticon, 1963-1997," Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 37 (1998): 234-248.
______. Modernity and the Millennium: The Genesis of the Babi-Bahá'í Faiths in Nineteenth Century Iran. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
______. "The Genesis of the Bahá'í Faith in Middle Eastern Modernity," International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World Newsletter (Leiden) 2 (1999): 9.
______. "Religious Dissidence and Urban Leadership: Bahá'ís in Qajar Shiraz and Tehran," Iran: Journal of the British Institute for Persian Studies 37 (1999): 123-42.
______. "Race, Immorality and Money in the American Bahá'í Community: Impeaching the Los Angeles Spiritual Assembly," Religion 30.2 (2000): 109-25.
WP Collins, "Bahá'í Faith," in Encyclopedia of Millennialism and Millennial Movements, ed. RA Landes (New York: Routledge, 2000) 42-46.
H Coward. Pluralism in the World Religions: a short introduction (Oxford: Oneworld, 2000).
S Fazel, "Islamic and Bahá'í views of psychiatry," Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences 35.2 (1998): 146-7.
C Farhoumand and C Lerche, "The Bahá'í Vision of World Order," in World Order for a New Millennium: Political, Cultural, and Spiritual Approaches to Building Peace, ed. AW Dorn (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999) 233-245.
BK Filson, "The Gift of May Maxwell - The Bahá'í Community of Canada," Ecumenism 128 (1997): 20-24.
A Ghadirian, "Intergenerational Responses to the Persecution of the Bahá'ís of Iran," in International Handbook of Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma, ed. Y Danieli (New York: Plenum Press, 1998) 513-532.
N Ghanea, "Islam, Human Rights and Religious Intolerance: The Case of the Bahá'ís of Iran," in Religion and International Relations, ed. KR Dark (Houndmills: Macmillan Press, 2000) 113-139.
W Gregg, "The Bahá'í Faith and biospheric sustainability," in Ecology and religion: scientists speak, ed. John E. Carroll and Keith Warner (Quincy, Ill: Franciscan Press, 1998) 135-159.
CE Gudorf and E Fanaian, "A spectrum of violence: a case study," in Ethics and world religions (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1999) 108-124.
JS Hatcher, "Bahá'í Faith," in How different religions view death & afterlife, edited by CJ Johnson and MG McGee (Philadelphia: Charles Press, 1998).
F Kazemzadeh, "The Bahá'ís in Iran: Twenty Years of Repression," Social Research 67.2 (2000).
______. "A Bahá'í perspective on tolerance, human rights, and missions," in Sharing the book: religious perspectives on the rights and wrongs of proselytism, edited by J Witte Jr and RC Martin (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 1999) 320-334, 406-408.
T Lawson, "The Bab's tafsirs of Qur'an 103 and 108, the Declining Day and the Abundance," in Iran im 19. Jahrhundert und die Entstehung der Bahá'í-Religion, ed. JC Burgel and I Schayani (Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 1998) 145-158.
M Litvak. Shi'i scholars of nineteenth-century Iraq. The 'Ulama' of Najaf and Karbala (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998). See pages 144-149.
D MacEoin, "The trial of the Bab: Shi`ite orthodoxy confronts its mirror image," in The Sultan's turret: studies in Persian and Turkish culture, ed. C Hillenbrand (Studies in honour of Clifford Edmund Bosworth, Vol. 2) (Leiden: Brill, 2000) 272-317.
RW McGee (ed). The Ethics of Tax Evasion (Dumont Inst: South Orange, 1998).
S McGlinn, "A Theology of the State from the Bahá'í Teachings," Journal of Church and State 41.4 (1999): 697-724.
M McMullen, "The religious construction of a global identity: an ethnographic look at the Atlanta Bahá'í community" in Contemporary American religion, edited by PE Becker and NL Eiesland (Walnut Creek, Calif: Altamira Press, 1997) 221-243.
M Momen, "A preliminary survey of the Bahá'í community of Iran during the Nineteenth Centurey," in Iran im 19. Jahrhundert und die Entstehung der Bahá'í-Religion, ed. JC Burgel and I Schayani (Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 1998) 33-52.
______. "Toward a Global Ethic: A Bahá'í Response," in For All Life: Toward a Universal Declaration of a Global Ethic - An Interreligious Dialogue, ed. L Swidler (Ashland, Ore.: White Cloud Press, 1999) 131-144.
D Piff and M Warburg, "Enemies of the Faith: Rumours and Anecdotes as Self-definition and Social Control in the Bahá'í Religion," in New Religions and New Religiosity, ed. E Barker and M Warburg (Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus University Press, 1998) 66-82.
EG Richards. Mapping time: the calendar and its history (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999). Chapter 18 discusses Islamic and Bahá'í calendars. There are brief discussions of the Bahá'í calendar in: B Blackburn and L Holford-Strevens, The Oxford Companion to the Year (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999); and Religious Holidays and Calendars: An Encyclopedic Handbook (2nd ed., Detroit, Mich.: Omnigraphics, Inc., 1998).
E Sanasarian. Religious Minorities in Iran (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000).
M Sedgwick, "Sects in the Islamic World," Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 3.2 (2000): 195-240.
RH Stockman, "Bahá'í Faith," in The Encyclopedia of Cults, Sects, and New Religions, edited by JR Lewis (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1998) 64-71.
______. "The Unity Principle: Ideas of Social Concord and Discord in the Bahá'í Faith," in Ideas of Concord and Discord in Selected World Religions, ed. JB Gittler (Stamford, Conn.: JAI Press, 2000) 1-19.
M Warburg, "Bahá'í: A Religious Approach to Globalization," Social Compass 46.1 (1999): 47-56.
______. "Restrictions and Privileges: Legal and Administrative Practice and Minority Religions in the USA and Denmark," in New Religions and New Religiosity,ed. E Barker and M Warburg (Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus UP, 1998) 263-275.
Book reviews
E Abrahamian, "Modernity and the Millennium by Juan R. I. Cole," International Journal of Middle East Studies 32.2 (2000): 302-304.
LR Batzler, "Dimensions in Spirituality by Jack A. McLean," Journal of Religion and Psychical Research 22 (1999): 118-120.
A Bloom, "Buddhism and the Bahá'í Faith by Moojan Momen," Dialogue and Alliance 12.2 (1998): 119-121.
C Buck, "The origins of the Bahá'í community of Canada, 1898-1948 by Will van den Hoonaard," University of Toronto Quarterly 69.1 (1999): 290-1.
WP Collins, "The Bahá'í: The religious construction of a global identity by M McMullen," Library Journal 125.11 (2000): 88.
WG Huitt, "Dimensions in Spirituality by Jack A. McLean," Dialogue and Alliance 12.2 (1998): 116-119.
F Lewis, "Studies in Honor of the Late Hasan M. Balyuzi, ed. Moojan Momen," Iranian Studies 32.1 (1999): 145-148.
D MacEoin, "New prophet, new law," Times Literary Supplement 5016 (May 12, 1999): 30. [review of Modernity and the Millennium by Juan R. I. Cole]
S McGlinn, "Modernity and the Millennium by Juan R. I. Cole," Iranian Studies 32.4 (1999): 580-582.
H Moayyad, "Desinformation als methode by Udo Schaefer, Nicola Towfigh and Ulrich Gollmer," Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 8.3 (1998): 451-454.
B Metcalf, "Modernity and the Millennium by Juan R. I. Cole," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 30.3 (1999): 566-568.
M Momen, "Modernity and the Millennium by Juan R. I. Cole," Middle East Journal 54.1 (2000): 148-50.
JG Morgan, "The origins of the Bahá'í community of Canada, 1898-1948 by Will van den Hoonaard," The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology 36.1 (1999): 154.
TM Pucelik, "Modernity and the Millennium by Juan R. I. Cole," Choice 3.5 (January 1999).
J Renard, "Paradise and Paradigm by Christopher Buck," Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 24 (2000): 212-13.
M Swartz, "Modernity and the Millennium by Juan R. I. Cole," American Historical Review 105.3 (2000): 1049-50.
M Warburg, "The origins of the Bahá'í community of Canada, 1898-1948 by Will van den Hoonaard," Studies in Religion/Sciences religieuses 28.2 (1999): 232-233.
______. "Modernity and the Millennium by Juan R. I. Cole," History of Religions 39.4 (2000): 393-396.
J Winters, "Symbol and Secret by Christopher Buck and Revisioning the Sacred, ed. Jack McLean," Iranian Studies 32.1 (1999): 141-145.
- This is a partial listing of papers in academic periodicals, chapters and books that focus on or make significant reference to the Bábí-Bahá'í religions. The editors are grateful to Will Hanley, William Collins, and Graham Hassall for assistance in compiling this guide.
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