- Wendi Momen. 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Encounter with Modernity during His Western Travels (2012). — Abdu'l-Baha's responses to the West's technology and innovations on the one hand, vs. its archaic ra...
- Iraj Ghanooni. Naeem Nabiliakbar, trans. 'Abdu'l-Bahá on the World Stage (2022). — A contrast of the spiritual purpose of ‘Abdu'l-Baha's first visit to Paris with the secular aims o...
- Christopher Buck. Being Human: Bahá'í Perspectives on Islam, Modernity, and Peace, by Todd Lawson: Review (2021).
- Nader Saiedi. Birth of Human Beings in the Writings of the Bab (2010). — A talk on an invited topic (the origin of humankind) from a scholar known for his unique familiarity...
- Nader Saiedi. Birth of the Human Being, The: Beyond Religious Traditionalism and Materialist Modernity (2011). — We have arrived at a turning point in human evolution: the moment of the birth of the human being. T...
- Derik Smith. Centering the "Pupil of the Eye": Blackness, Modernity, and the Revelation of Bahá'u'lláh (2019). — The "pupil of the eye" metaphor is a deeply consequential, distinguishing feature of the transformat...
- Taj al-Saltana. Abbas Amanat, ed. Crowning Anguish: Memoirs of a Persian Princess from the Harem to Modernity 1884-1914 (1993). — Passing references to the Babis in Amanat's introduction to, and in the autobiography of, Nasir al-D...
- Juan Cole. Genesis of the Bahá'í Faith in Middle Eastern Modernity, The (1999). — Middle Eastern religion is seldom mentioned in the same breath with modernism. The Baha'i faith, whi...
- Rowshan Mustapha. Islám: The Road Ahead: Reflections of a Bahá'í on Islamic Topics (2014). — Questions about the finality of religion, the Day of Judgment, the role of Jesus and the Mihdi, and ...
- Betsy Omidvaran. Kitáb-i-Aqdas as a Lens with which to Examine some of the Dilemmas of Modernity, The (2002). — Contrast between the Aqdas - the source of laws of future society - and issues of the modern world a...
- Ismael Velasco. Liminal Moment, A: Shaykhi Millennialism and the Irruption of Modernity (2013). — On the end-times theology of the last great philosophical school to have developed integrally within...
- Benjamin Olshin. Mikhail Sergeev, Theory of Religious Cycles: Tradition, Modernity and the Bahá'í Faith: Review (2015).
- Juan Cole. Modernity and the Millennium: The Genesis of the Bahá'í Faith in the Nineteenth-century Middle East [introduction only] (1998). — Introduction and first 4 pages of Chapter One.
- Benjamin Schewel. Modernity as an Age of Transition (2023). — Modernity reconceptualized as a period of humanity’s collective adolescence; origins of the modern...
- Hoda Mahmoudi. Permanence of Change, The: Contemporary Sociological and Bahá'í Perspectives (2008). — Sociohistorical changes of the Axial Age and the Renaissance, sociological views on modernity and it...
- Ismael Velasco. Religion, Modernity and the "Clash of Civilisations": Context and Prospects (2013). — On the broader intellectual context for the emergence of the Baha'i Faith in 19th century Iran and i...
- Oliver Scharbrodt. Theological Responses to Modernity in the Nineteenth-century Middle East (2002). — With their theologies, Baha'u'llah and Muhammad 'Abduh both responded to the challenge of modernity ...
- Mikhail Sergeev. Theses on Modernity and the Bahá'í Faith (2015). — On how new religious movements respond to modernity; cycles of religion; project of modernity; cultu...
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