- Abdu'l-Bahá. Khazeh Fananapazir, trans, Seena Fazel, ed. 'Abdu'l-Bahá on Christ and Christianity: An interview with Pasteur Monnier on the relationship between the Bahá'í Faith and Christianity, Paris (1993-12). Revised translation of an interview with Pasteur Monnier, from chapter 5 of 'Abdu'l-Bahá on Divine Philosophy.
- Marion Weinstein. ['Abdu'l-Bahá] Declares Zionists Must Work with Other Races: From the Globe and Commercial Advertiser (New York, July 17, 1919) (1919-09-08). An interview with 'Abdu'l-Bahá on the League of Nations, Bahá'í ideas for peace, and the Holy Land. [Note: at this time in history, years before the Second World War, the terms "Zionist" and "Palestine" had somewhat different meanings.]
- Iraj Ghanooni. Naeem Nabiliakbar, trans, Adib Masumian, trans. '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.
- Suheil Badi Bushrui (published as Suheil Bushrui). Ameen Rihani and the Unity of Religion: The Politics of Time and the Politics of Eternity (2014). Overview of the life and thought of a Lebanese-American writer, intellectual, and political activist, who believed in the oneness of religions and the brotherhood of nations and devoted his life to promoting East-West understanding.
- Christopher Buck. "And universal peace — in what Book is this written?": How and Why 'Abdu'l-Bahá Identified "New" and Distinctive Bahá'í Principles (2022-09). Reflections on ‘Abdu’l-Bahá's answer to the question "What has Bahá’u’lláh brought that we have not heard before?"
- Michael W. Sours. Bahá'í Cosmological Symbolism and the Ecofeminist Critique (1995). Constituents of Bahá'í cosmological symbolism; introduction to the main feminist/environmentalist arguments; eschatological character of Bahá'í cosmological symbolism; Bahá'í eschatology provides answers to many feminist and ecological objections.
- Robert Stockman. Baha'i Faith and Syncretism, The (1997). Addresses the common misunderstanding that the Bahá'í Faith is syncretistic.
- Dann J. May. Baha'i Principle of Religious Unity and the Challenge of Radical Pluralism (1993/1997). A shorter version of this thesis is published as "The Bahá'í Principle of Religious Unity: A Dynamic Perspectivism."
- Jena Khadem Khodadad. Bahá'í Worldview on Unity of Religions: Progressive Revelation, The: Principles and Insights from the History of Science (2009). Examination of the Bahá’í belief in the unity of religions and the doctrine of "progressive revelation" through the lens of Thomas Kuhn's concept of scientific revolutions.
- Denis MacEoin. Bahá'ísm: Some Uncertainties about its Role as a Globalizing Religion (2005). On Bahá'í self-understanding as the religion to unite all faiths in the culmination of globalisation, vs. the challenges which secular values present to a religion that, rooted in Islamic thinking, aims to fuse the spheres of religion and society.
- Peter Terry. Baha'u'llah and the Reconciliation of Religions (2014). The reconciliation of religions is one of the principal themes of Bahá'u'lláh's writings, yet one rarely discussed in introductions to the Bahá'í Faith and often ignored in surveys of Bahá'í teachings.
- Khazeh Fananapazir. Bahá'u'lláh as fulfilment of the theophanic promise in the Sermons of Imam 'Alí ibn Abí Ṭálib: Translation of al Tutunjiyya, Iftikhár and Ma'rifat bin-Nurániyyat (2007). Translations of Tutunjiyya "Sermon of the Gulf," Iftikhár "Sermon of Iftikhár," and Ma'rifat bin-Nurániyyat "Sermon of Ma'rifat bin-Nurániyyat."
- Moojan Momen. Baha'u'llah's Prophetology: Archetypal patterns in the lives of the founders of the world religions (1995). Explores the theory that the lives of the prophet-founders of the world religions have in some ways re-capitulated each other.
- Paul Lample, comp. Bahá'u'lláh's Teachings on Spiritual Reality (1996). The quest for spirituality, the spiritual life, material and spiritual reality, the progress of the soul and humanity’s spiritual education.
- Udo Schaefer. Baha'u'llah's Unity Paradigm: A Contribution to Interfaith Dialogue on a Global Ethic? (1996). The mystic unity of religions and the concept of progressive revelation.
- Moojan Momen. Beyond Pluralism (1995-04). Brief thoughts on the Bahá'í Faith as a "metareligion."
- Udo Schaefer. Geraldine Schuckelt, trans. Beyond the Clash of Religions: The Emergence of a New Paradigm (1998). Religious pluralism and associated issues: diversity and unity of religions, absoluteness, relativity of truth, New Age thought, and interfaith dialogue
- Daniel Conner. Buddhism and the Bahá'í Faith (1971-72 Winter). Brief summary of the history and thought of Buddhism; commonalities with Western concepts; different emphases placed on ethics vs. metaphysics; aspects of social control.
- Kamran Ekbal. Colonialism, Nationalism and Jewish Immigration to Palestine: Abdu'l-Baha's Viewpoints Regarding the Middle East (2014). Abdu'l-Bahá was opposed to the cultural and political colonialism of foreign powers and their militaries. In spite of the Bahá'í principle of abstaining from politics, exceptions can be made in the face of tyranny and injustice.
- National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of India. Communal Harmony: India's Greatest Challenge (1993(?)/2015). A formal statement from the NSA of the Bahá'ís of India on the need to overcome religious, linguistic and caste-based tensions.
- Moojan Momen. Comparative Lives of the Founders of the World Religions (1995). Table comparing the lives of the Founders of the world's religions.
- Todd Lawson. Cosmopolitan World of the Quran and Late Antique Humanism, The (2021). On the Qur'an's use of the themes of epic and apocalypse to reveal its most cherished sacred truths: the Oneness of God, the Oneness of Religion, and the Oneness of Humanity. Contains no mention of the Bahá'í Faith.
- WellSpring International Educational Foundation for the Study and Application of the Sacred Texts. Divine Virtues and Spiritual Qualities: A Compilation from Sacred Texts (2003). Comprehensive exploration of 77 virtues and qualities drawn from the texts of various religions.
- Bahiyyih Nakhjavani. Fact and Fiction: Interrelationships between History and Imagination (2000). On the tension between "fact" and "fiction," between objective history and our relative and subjective stories, between art as the representation of reality and faith based on the Word of God. We inherited a responsibility to resolve this tension.
- Christopher Buck. Fifty Bahá'í Principles of Unity: A Paradigm of Social Salvation (2014). World religions are systems of salvation, liberation, or harmony, in direct response to the perceived human predicament. To Baha’is, this predicament is profound estrangement and the solution is world unity, from family to international relations.
- Christopher Buck. Fourth Candle, The: The Unity of Religion and Interfaith Dialogue (1986). What does "Unity in Religion" mean, and how does it apply for Bahá'ís' interactions with other religious communities? An essay inspired by Abdu'l-Bahá's Tablet "Seven Candles of Unity," utopia, Hans Kung, and the Lesser Peace.
- Zaid Lundberg. From Adam to Bahá'u'lláh: The Idea of a Chain of Prophecy (2002). Whilst the modern period has seen a series of scientific paradigm shifts which have radically altered the scientific understanding of man and nature, no theory of religion has had similar success; the potential of the Bahá’í perspective.
- George Townshend. Heart of the Gospel: The Bible and the Bahá'í Faith (1939). Using only the text of the Bible, Townshend provides a new reading of Scripture as a guidebook for those who seek a universal view of religion and the contemporary world.
- Juan Cole. I am all the Prophets": The Poetics of Pluralism in Bahá'í Texts (1993 Fall). Literary analysis of a passage from Tablet of Blood (Súriy-i-Damm) in which Bahá'u'lláh identifies Himself with all the past Prophets and their sufferings, depicting himself mortally wounded on the field of battle, like Imám Husayn.
- Michael W. Sours. Immanence and Transcendence in Theophanic Symbolism (1992). Bahá'u'lláh uses symbols to depict theophanies — the appearance of God and the divine in the realm of creation — such as "angel," "fire," and the prophets' claims to be incarnating the "face" or "voice" of God; these convey the transcendence of God.
- 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 what will happen at the End of Time, through the lens of the Bahá’í Teachings.
- Bahá'u'lláh. Shoghi Effendi, comp, Arjen Bolhuis, ed. Key Passages from the Kitáb-i-Íqán (Book of Certitude) in Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh (2022). Cross-reference compilation of 40 passages from the Kitáb-i-Íqán selected by Shoghi Effendi for inclusion in Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, adapted from Hooper Dunbar's Companion to the Study of the Kitáb-i-Íqán.
- Udo Schaefer. L'histoire de Salut et Changement de Paradigme: Deux Contributions à la Théologie Bahá'íe (1993). French translation of Beyond the Clash of Religions: The Emergence of a New Paradigm.
- Universal House of Justice. Letter to the World's Religious Leaders (2002-04). On historic challenges that leaders of religion must respond to, if spiritual leadership is to have meaning in the new global society.
- Ismael Velasco. Logos, Mythos and Kerygma: The Logic of Reconciliation and the Occultation of the Promised Qá'im in Bábí-Bahá'í Scripture (2004). Theological background of the Twelfth Imam in Shi'i Islam, comprehensive interpretation of Bahá'u'lláh's and 'Abdu'l-Bahá's position on the occultation and the Qá'ím, and the historicity of the 12th Imám in the Bahá'í writings.
- Archie Bell. Meeting a Prophet (1915). Book chapter containing three interviews with 'Abdu'l-Bahá at the Sea of Galilee.
- Ross Woodman. Metaphor and the Language of Revelation (1997). To enter the realm of metaphor as the language of the soul is to come into direct contact with the Word as the originating power of creation.
- Benjamin Olshin. Mikhail Sergeev, Theory of Religious Cycles: Tradition, Modernity and the Bahá'í Faith: Review (2015).
- Universal House of Justice. One Common Faith (2005). Review of relevant passages from both the writings of Bahá'u'lláh and the scriptures of other faiths against the background of contemporary crises.
- Bahá'u'lláh. Shoghi Effendi, comp, Arjen Bolhuis, ed. Passages uit de Kitáb-i-Íqán (Boek van Zekerheid) in Bloemlezing uit de Geschriften van Bahá'u'lláh (2022). Compilatie van 40 passages uit de Kitáb-i-Íqán door Shoghi Effendi geselecteerd voor opname in Bloemlezing uit de Geschriften van Bahá'u'lláh.
- Wolfgang A. Klebel. Path of God, The (2010). A comparison of the 'Global Ethic' (Hans Küng) with the Bahá'í Faith. The core ethical principles found in all religions are the most likely first step towards the unification of all religions: an inspiration for Unity in Diversity.
- Dorothy Baker. Path to God, The: 1937 (1937). Essay published as a pamphlet about the goal of life, revelation and access to heaven, self-improvement while on earth, prayer and spiritual surrender, loving the Messenger and following his teachings.
- William S. Hatcher. Précis Commentary on One Common Faith (2008). Commentary on the statement ‘One Common Faith’.
- William Sears. Progressive Revelation and Oneness of Religion (1972 (?) / 2018). A videotaped talk (possibly from 1972), along with a shorter animated 2018 presentation prepared by a graphic designer for the Bahá'í Journeys website.
- Susan Maneck. Prophets of Mahabad, and Nature of Creation: The Two Questions of Manakji Limji Hataria (2011). Discussion of Baha’u’llah’s letters to Manakji Hataria as found in the Tabernacle of Unity, compiled from an email discussion group archive; the context of the questions and their answers against the background of Ishraqi philosophy.
- George Townshend. Questions about the Second Coming (1953). Answers by Townshend to questions asked by the Bahá’ís of Kampala, Uganda about the return of Christ, the Bible, false prophets, the day of judgment, and the trinity.
- Todd Lawson. Qur'anic Kerygma: Epic, Apocalypse, and Typological Figuration (2022). Article contains no mention of the Bábí or Bahá'í Faiths, but includes themes of relevance to Bahá'í teachings on the typologies of proclamation and apocalypse.
- Thomas Kelly Cheyne. Reconciliation of Races and Religions, The (1914). Early history of the Bábí and Bahá'í movements, life stories of their participants, and their contemporary religious context, written by a distinguished British Biblical scholar.
- Peter Terry. Reconciliation of Religions, The: Imperative for the 21st Century (2015). While the 12 principles attributed to 'Abdu'l-Bahá include the harmony of religion with science and reason and the imperative that religion lead to unity, one principle that was at least as prominent is often left out: the reconciliation of religions.
- David Russell Garcia. Kees Poolman, trans. Reis naar het Hart van de Qur'án: Het Heilige Boek van de islam voor hen die nadenken (door een niet-moslim) (2022). Een overzicht van de Koran en zijn thema's: islam versus het christendom; wetten, geestelijke en sociale principes; heilige oorlog en vechten; redenen achter de reputatie van de islam als een oorlogsreligie; apocalypse.
- Julio Savi. Religion and Exclusivism: A Bahá'í Perspective (2006). Various factors have distracted the attention of religionists from the essential teachings of religion rather than its secondary aspects; this has led to dangerous claims to exclusivity or finality, which need to resolved to ensure peaceful coexistence.
- Julio Savi. Religious Pluralism: A Bahá'í Perspective (2000). On resolving the conflicting truth claims made by different religious traditions; finding definitions for "religion" and "prophet"; problems of historical texts; the current state of religion.
- Seena Fazel. Religious Pluralism and the Baha'i Faith (2003-07). Provides an overview of the Bahá'í poisition on religious pluralism, reviewing relevant Bahá'í texts and scholarship that bear on this theme. Published with minor revisions.
- Pritam Singh. Scriptures of Different Faiths, The (1942). Overview of Hindu, Buddhist, Zoroastrian, Christian, and Islamic scriptures, emphasizing their teachings and significance across diverse religious traditions.
- Kevin Brogan. Spiritual Footprints in the Sands of Time (2003). The covenantal relationship between God and humankind; the lives of the founders of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, and Buddhism; the societies in which these religions developed; and some of their common features.
- Universal House of Justice. Station of Baha'u'llah: Three Letters (1991-1992). Three letters on the station of Bahá'u'lláh, the souls of the Manifestations, the varying intensities of their Revelations, the phrase "most precious Being," and on teaching the Faith to Christians.
- Universal House of Justice. Station of Bahá'u'lláh and the Significance of His Revelation, The (1992-10-15). As the soul is a mystery that the human mind cannot unravel, even more ineffable is the nature of the Manifestations of God, the relationships between them, and their relationship to God.
- Bahá'u'lláh. Juan Cole, trans. Tablet to Mirza Abu'l-Fadl Concerning the Questions of Manakji Limji Hataria: Baha'u'llah on Hinduism and Zoroastrianism (1995). Introduction to, article about, and translation of the Tablet to Maneckji.
- Edward Price. Taking Care with Translation of Sacred Scripture (2016/2020). Examination of the importance of using reliable translations of the Qur’án. Includes technical discussion of the meanings of Islam, Muslim, and Allah, aspects of the Arabic language, and errors of translation.
- Peter Terry. Truth Triumphs: A Bahá'í Response to Misrepresentations of the Bahá'í Teachings and Bahá'í History (1999-12). Rebuttal of Francis Beckwith's thesis "Bahá'í, A Christian response to Bahá'ísm, the religion which aims toward one world government and one common faith."
- Peter Terry, comp. Two Parts of the Law of God, The: The Essential and the Secondary Teachings of the True Religion of God, and Counterfeit Doctrines (2022). Four compilations on themes related to the progressive revelation of the religion of God; essential vs. secondary teachings; counterfeit doctrines of the false religion of man.
- Universal House of Justice. Unity of Religions in This Century, Jews and the Crucifixion, and the Sacrifice of Ishmael, The (1990-11-06).
- Steven Phelps. Verge of the New, The: A Series of Talks (2017-09-18). Introducing a way of looking at the past and future of religion in the context of the scientific revolution and the Enlightenment. Includes compilation of Writings on spiritual dislocation, science, language, spiritual evolution, nature, and revelation.
- David Russell Garcia. Voyage to the Heart of the Koran: The Holy Book of Islám for Thinking Minds (By a Non-Muslim) (2003-10). A lengthy overview of the Qur'án and its themes for a Bahá'í audience; holy war and fighting; reasons behind Islám's reputation as a war-like religion; theology of Islám vs. Christianity; laws and admonitions; spiritual and social principles; apocalypse.
- Grant S. Martin. Why the Bahá'í Faith Is Not Pluralist (2007). Argues against Seena Fazel that the Bahá’í Faith is not a form of religious pluralism.
- Juan Cole. Wittgensteinian Language-Games in an Indo-Persian Dialogue on the World Religions (2015 Fall). Reflections on Bahá'u'lláh's theology of previous religions and Ludwig Wittgenstein’s concept of "language games"; Hinduism, India, and 19th-century Iranian culture; Manakji’s questions about Hinduism and Zoroastrianism.
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