CONTENTS
  
Foreword 
     Peter Smith ..................................................... ix

Surveys

The Bahá'í Faith in the West: A Survey
     Peter Smith ...................................................... 3

Esslemont's Survey of the Bahá'í World, 1919-1920
     Moojan Momen .................................................... 61

Episodes

'Abdu'l-Bahá in Budapest
     Gyorgy Lederer ................................................. 102

"A Bit of Extraneous Matter": The 1910 Bahai Temple Unity 
     Convention and the Downfall of Henry Clayton Thompson
     Jackson Armstrong-Ingram ....................................... 122

The Plans of Unified Action
     Loni Bramson ................................................... 155

Beginnings

Outpost of a World Religion: The Bahá'í Faith in Australia, 1920-1947
     Graham Hassal1 ................................................. 201

The Circle, the Brotherhood, and the  Ecclesiastical  Body: 
     The Bahá'í Faith in Denmark 1925-1987
     Margit Warburg ................................................. 222

The Bahá'í Community in Edinburgh, 1946-1950
     Ismael Velasco ................................................. 265