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Tag "Women" details:

tag name: Women

web link: Women

  type: Principles, teachings
references: https://bahaipedia.org/Gender_equality; https://bahai9.com/wiki/Woman
referring tags: Empowerment

"Women" appears in:

1.   from the main catalog (177 results)

  1. 1970-1995: Newspaper articles archive (1970). — Collection of newspaper articles from 1970-1995. Also available as a zipped archive: <a href="ht...
  2. 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...
  3. Bahá'í International Community. Activities in the Bahá'í World Community to Improve the Status of Women during the United Nations Decade for Women (1985). — Report presented to the World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the United Natio...
  4. Bahá'u'lláh Bahá'í World Centre, trans. Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá'u'lláh (2018). — 80 selections, updated August 2023.
  5. Abdu'l-Bahá Bahá'í World Centre, trans. Additional Tablets, Extracts and Talks (2018). — 167 selections, updated August 2023.
  6. Veronica Shoffstall. Advancement of Women: A Bahá'í Perspective, by Janet and Peter Khan: Transforming the roles of women and men, a Review (1999).
  7. Institute for Studies in Global Prosperity. Advancing Toward the Equality of Women and Men (2009). — Issues that lie at the heart of the struggle for the equality of women and men, via the Institute’...
  8. Shoghi Effendi. Advent of Divine Justice (1971). — A letter from the Gurdian to the Baha’is of North America, dated 25 December 1938; the Baha'is' ac...
  9. Bahá'í International Community. Advocates for African Food Security: Lessening the Burden for Women (1991). — A joint statement to the 35th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, Agend...
  10. Steven Gonzales. Affirmative Action and the Jurisprudence of Equitable Inclusion: Towards a New Consensus on Gender and Race Relations (1995). — The principle of equity and the Baha’i emphasis on unity in diversity as a basis for considering A...
  11. Universal House of Justice Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, comp. African Culture, Traditional, Aspects of (1998). — Challenges and opportunities in the African continent; eliminating prejudices; dance and music; alco...
  12. Layli Maparyan. Africanity, Womanism, and Constructive Resilience: Some Reflections (2020). — The meanings of the metaphor "pupil of the eye;" experiences of growing up African-American in the W...
  13. Elnaz Nasehi. Ambivalence of Hostility and Modification: Patriarchy's Ideological Negotiation With Women, Modernity and Cinema in Iran (2020). — Passing mentions of the Baha'i Faith in the context of how forces behind the Constitutional Revoluti...
  14. 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). — Reflections on ‘Abdu’l-Baha's answer to the question "What has Baha’u’llah brought that we h...
  15. Bahá'í International Community. Año Internacional de la Mujer, El (1974). — Exposición presentada por la Comunidad Internacional Baha’i en el 25° periodo de sesiones de la ...
  16. Graham Hassall. Asking Questions: A Challenge to Fundamentalism, by Bahíyyih Nakhjavání: Review (1991).
  17. Graham Hassall. Australian Women and Religious Change: Margaret Dixson and the First Melbourne Baha'is (1988). — Women played an important role in the initial spread and development of the Baha’i Faith in Austra...
  18. Todd Lawson. Authority of the Feminine and Fatima's Place in an Early Work by the Bab, The (2007). — While Tahirih inspired many in Europe and eventually America, she is very much a daughter of her own...
  19. Siyamak Zabihi-Moghaddam. Báb on the Rights of Women, The (2023). — Statements of the Bab on issues such as mutʿah and tahlil marriages, polygyny, bridal consent, divo...
  20. Anthony Lee. Bábí Theology in Poetry, A: The Creative Imagination of Táhirih, Qurratu'l-'Ayn (2023). — Examination of Qurratu’l-Ayn's writings to discern her social, religious, and political beliefs, m...
  21. Moojan Momen. Badasht (1989). — Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  22. Michael W. Sours. Bahá'í Cosmological Symbolism and the Ecofeminist Critique (1995). — Constituents of Baha'i cosmological symbolism; introduction to the main feminist/environmentalist ar...
  23. Dianne Bradford and Fiona Missaghian et al. Jonah Winters, comp. Bahá'í Ethics: Answers to 55 Questions Submitted by Arthur Dobrin (2004). — Answers to questions submitted in preparation for a source book in religious ethics for a college co...
  24. Wendi Momen. Bahá'í Faith and the Equality, Rights, and Advancement of Women, The: A Survey of Principles, Praxis, and Discourse (2023). — Equality of women and men; education, advancement, and rights of women and girls; their application ...
  25. Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew. Bahá'í Faith and the Singapore Women's Movement, The: Challenges for the Next Millennium (1999). — On the relationship between religion and the fight for women's rights after the founding of the Sing...
  26. Hussein Ahdieh. Bahá'í History and Videos (2013). — Links to Zoom videos on a variety of topics: Kahlil Gibran, the life of Varqa, Baha'i schools for gi...
  27. Tahirih Tahririha-Danesh, ed. Bahá'í-Inspired Perspectives on Human Rights (2001). — Articles by Kiser Barnes, Greg Duly, Cheshmak Farhoumand-Sims, Graham Hassall, Darren Hedley, Nazila...
  28. Juan Cole. Bahá'u'lláh and Liberation Theology (1997). — The idea of liberation and equality is central to Baha'i theology; the poor in the 19th century Midd...
  29. Rhett Diessner. Bahá'í Faith and Peace Psychology, The: The Potential for Science and Religion to Collaborate (1994). — On the potential for Bahá’í peace initiatives, coupled with empirical peace psychology approac...
  30. Bahá'í International Community. Base Espiritual de la Igualdad, La (1985).
  31. Bahá'í International Community. Beyond Legal Reforms: Culture and Capacity in the Eradication of Violence Against Women and Girls (2006). — Statement on the epidemic of violence against women around the world, as perpetuated by social norms...
  32. Haig V. Setrakian and Marc B. Rosenman et al. Breastfeeding and the Bahá'í Faith (2011). — The Writings reference breast-feeding literally and symbolically, and provide guidance as to its pra...
  33. Nozomu Sonda. Bushido (Chivalry) and the Traditional Japanese Moral Education (2007). — Japanese virtues explained by Nitobe in 1900 in comparison with the Baha'i perspective on moral educ...
  34. Hussein Ahdieh and Hillary Chapman. Calling, The: Tahirih of Persia and Her American Contemporaries (2017). — Simultaneous, powerful spiritual movements swept across both Iran and the U.S in the mid-1800s. On t...
  35. Nancy Lease. Commentary on "Equality of Women: The Bahá'í Principle of Complementarity," by Linda O'Neil: Response (1991).
  36. Bahá'í International Community. Condicion juridica y social de la mujer, La (1988).
  37. Bahá'í International Community. Conferencia Mundial del Año Internacional de la Mujer: Declaración presentada por la Comunidad Internacional Bahá'í (1975). — Declaración presentada por la Comunidad Internacional Baha’i (en caracter consultivo con el Conse...
  38. Bahá'í International Community. Conferencia Mundial para el Examen y la Evaluación de los Logros del Decenio de las Naciones Unidas para la Mujer: Igualdad, Desarrollo y Paz (1985). — Informe presentado por la Comunidad Internacional Baha'i acerca de las actividades de la Comunidad B...
  39. Sen McGlinn. Considerations Relating to the Inheritance Laws of the Kitab-i-Aqdas, Some (1995). — Gender distinctions in the Baha'i inheritance laws might at first glance seem to favor male heirs, b...
  40. Bahá'u'lláh and Abdu'l-Bahá et al Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, comp. Cultural Diversity in the Age of Maturity (2000).
  41. Marzieh Gail. Dawn over Mount Hira and Other Essays (1976). — A collection of essays on various topics of interest to Baha'i studies and history. Most of these we...
  42. Archives Office of the United States Bahá'í National Center. Demographics of the United States National Spiritual Assembly (2016). — Percentage of women, African-Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Latino Americans serv...
  43. Phyllis Ghim-Lian Chew. Dialogue between Yin-Yang Concepts and the Bahá'í Faith, The (2001). — Yin-yang, a pivotal theory in Chinese thought influencing government, architecture, relationships, a...
  44. Michael Bodakowski and Katherine Marshall. Discussion with Farida Vahedi, Executive Director of the Department of External Affairs, National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of India, A (2011). — Overview of Vahedi's life and work, history of the Faith in India and development projects, the Inst...
  45. Ruhiyyih (Mary Maxwell) Khanum and Ann Boylan et al. "Easy Familiarity," Explanations of (1912). — Statements on displays of affection (hugging and kissing) between members of the opposite sex. Also ...
  46. Geeta Gandhi Kingdon. Education of women and socio-economic development (2002). — The findings of recent research on the social and the economic benefits of female education, which p...
  47. Erin Murphy Graham and Felicity Rawlings. Education of women and socio-economic development, by Geeta Gandhi Kingdon: Commentary (1998).
  48. Baharieh Rouhani Ma'ani. Effect of Philosophical and Linguistic Gender Biases on the Degradation of Women's Status in Religion, The (1997). — Women’s rights have been undermined for centuries; philosophical and linguistic gender-related bia...
  49. Universal House of Justice Cortesia, trans. Elegibilidad de las Mujeres en la Casa Universal de Justicia (1988).
  50. Helen Cheng and Catherine Nash. Emblems of Faithfulness: Pluralism in Meaning and Beauty in the Ordinary (2015). — Memorials of the Faithful is notable for the diversity of personalities described, and the sheer ord...
  51. Encyclopaedia Iranica. Arjen Bolhuis, comp. Encyclopaedia Iranica: Selected articles related to Persian culture, religion, philosophy and history (1982). — Sorted, categorized collection of links to over 170 articles.
  52. Anthony Lee. Enslaved African Women in Nineteenth-Century Iran: The Life of Fezzeh Khanom of Shiraz (2012). — Through an examination of the life of this servant of The Bab, this paper addresses the enormous gap...
  53. Edwin Graham. Equality and Baha'i Principles in Northern Ireland (2001). — A paper in two parts: (1) the development of equality legislation in Northern Ireland, and (2) the B...
  54. John S. Hatcher. Equality of Women, The: The Bahá'í Principle of Complementarity (1990). — The Baha’i teachings simultaneously assert the equality of men and women whilst advocating in some...
  55. Bahá'í International Community. Estudios Preliminares Sobre la Condición Jurídica y Social de la Mujer en la Comunidad Mundial Bahá'í (1974). — Declaración presentada al 25° periodo de sesiones de la Comisión de las Naciones Unidas sobre la ...
  56. Bahiyyih Nakhjavani. Exemption (1993). — Thoughts on Baha'u'llah's meaning in "exempting" women from certain Baha'i obligations, especially p...
  57. Hoda Mahmoudi and Janet Huggins. "Exploring Male Oppressions from a Family-Systems Perspective,: Commentary and Response (1991).
  58. Sen McGlinn. Family Law in Iran (2001). — Detailed overview of 20th-century Iranian laws regarding marriage, divorce, marriage rights and duti...
  59. Báb, The and Bahá'u'lláh et al. Family Life (1991).
  60. Lil Osborn. Female Representations of the Holy Spirit in Bahá'í and Christian writings and their implications for gender roles (1994). — A response to feminist theologian Mary Daly's argument that a male representation of God reinforces ...
  61. Paula A. Drewek. Feminine Forms of the Divine in Bahá'í Scriptures (1992). — Examples of the interaction between male and female principles in the writings. Complementarity of m...
  62. Morgan Wilson. Feminism, Men and the Bahá'í Faith (1996). — Separate reflections on feminism and on men and the Baha'i Faith. The challenges faced by each are a...
  63. Janet Afary and et al.. Feminist Movements in the Late Qajar Period (1999). — Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  64. 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 perceive...
  65. Office of Social and Economic Development. For the Betterment of the World: The Worldwide Bahá'í Community's Approach to Social and Economic Development (2003). — Essays, photographs, and overviews of local projects around the world, illustrating how Baha'i princ...
  66. Siyamak Zabihi-Moghaddam. Gender in Babi and Bahá'í Law (2010).
  67. Bahá'í International Community. Gender perspectives and the work of the United Nations (2007). — Statement to the UN Human Rights Council on integrating gender perspectives.
  68. Universal House of Justice. Goddess Religion, Ancient (1992). — Ancient goddess religions and the role of the feminine in theology.
  69. Bahá'u'lláh and Abdu'l-Bahá. Marzia Rowhani, comp. Handmaidens of God: Baha'i Prayers for Women (1987).
  70. Harvard Pluralism Project: Baha'i (2023). — Six overview essays on Baha'i history, beliefs, and practices. (Offsite)
  71. Bahá'í International Community. Hora Decisiva para todas las Naciones (1995). — Declaración de la Comunidad Internacional Baha'i con motivo del 50 aniversario de Naciones Unidas ...
  72. Universal House of Justice. How Individuals Can Improve Their Understanding of the Bahá'í Teachings (1994). — On the inability of the finite human mind to fully grasp the import of the Teachings, and how indivi...
  73. Universal House of Justice. Geoffrey W. Marks, comp. Husband and Wife, Relationship between (1996). — The "functional" divisions between husband and wife in the Baha'i Writings should be considered in t...
  74. Moojan Momen. In All the Ways that Matter, Women Don't Count (1994). — The Baha'i goal of achieving sexual equality cannot be achieved merely by trying to advance the posi...
  75. Ross Woodman. "In the Beginning Was the Word": Apocalypse and the Education of the Soul (1993). — Hidden meanings in scripture and the soul are metaphorically identified with the huris, or brides. T...
  76. Maureen Sier. Indigenous rights and women's rights in the Samoan Bahá'í community (1999).
  77. Samsul Hidayat. Indonesian Bahá'í Community's Perspective on Gender Equality (2023). — On the concept of gender equality in Indonesian context from a Baha'i perspective; Baha'is view gend...
  78. Seena Fazel. Inheritance (1994). — The apparent contradiction between sexual equality and the unequal inheritance laws contained in the...
  79. Sen McGlinn. Inheritance Laws of the Kitab-i-Aqdas (1995). — Conceptualizing the Kitab-i Aqdas as establishing a fixed and elaborate set of laws and requirements...
  80. Bahá'í International Community. Integracion de la mujer en el desarrollo enocomico y social de America Latina y el Caribe, La (1988). — Revisión y evaluación critica de algunos aspectos de la condición de la mujer en la region, inclu...
  81. Baharieh Rouhani Ma'ani. Interdependence of Bahá'í Communities, The: Services of North American Bahá'í Women to Iran (1991). — Some early American Baha’i women’s contribution to the development of the Iranian Baha’i commu...
  82. Brian Wittman. Keys to the Proper Understanding of Islam in "The Dispensation of Baha'u'llah" (2001). — Some references to Islam in Shoghi Effendi's English-language writings.
  83. Abdu'l-Bahá. Ameen Ullah Fareed, trans. Letter to Corinne True re Women on the House of Justice (1909). — Translation by Amin Farid of a short letter stating that "men and women are equal in all rights save...
  84. Dominic Parvis Brookshaw. Letters to Bahá'í princesses: Tablets revealed in honour of the women of Ibn-i Asdaq's household (2004). — A study and translation of 'Abdu'l-Baha's tablets to the daughters of Hand of the Cause of God, Ibn-...
  85. Bahá'u'lláh and Abdu'l-Bahá et al. Helen Bassett Hornby, comp. Lights of Guidance: A Bahá'í Reference File (1988). — The classic Baha'i reference book. This is its first online edition.
  86. Christopher Buck. Bolhuis Arjen, comp. List of Articles on BahaiTeachings.org (2020). — List of online essays and articles by Christopher Buck since 2014.
  87. Sahba Shayani. Literary Imitation in Three Poems Attributed to Tahirih Qurrat al-ʿAyn (2023). — The poetry of Tahirih has largely been ignored by historians, partly from politico-religious intoler...
  88. Wendi Momen. Making of Portraits of Some Bahá'í Women by O.Z. Whitehead, The (2003). — Recollections by the editor/publisher of stories behind the writing of O.Z. 'Zebby' Whitehead's book...
  89. Lil Osborn. Mary Magdalene: Lioness of God in the Bahá'í Faith (2013). — On the symbolic role of Mary Magdalene in the Baha’i tradition as a female archetype in the contex...
  90. Phyllis K. Peterson. Meaning of Detachment, The (1997). — Detachment as it relates to women, teaching, the media, and unity.
  91. International Teaching Centre. Meetings for women only (1997). — It is acceptable and perhaps even sometimes necessary for Baha'is to hold gender-segregated meetings...
  92. Lil Osborn. Men and the Baha'i Faith: The role of indigenous men in the early Baha'i community in the British Isles (2016). — Includes slide-show included when presenting the paper at the Baha'i Studies Seminar, Kellogg Colleg...
  93. Universal House of Justice. Geoffrey W. Marks, comp. Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-1986: Third Epoch of the Formative Age (1996).
  94. Bahá'í International Community. Mobilizing Institutional, Legal and Cultural Resources to Achieve Gender Equality (2008). — The central role of girls and women in human development; the need to end the cultural, institutiona...
  95. Universal House of Justice. Monogamy, Sexual Equality, Marital Equality, and the Supreme Tribunal (1996). — Questions about monogamy, the Supreme Tribunal, and the Baha'i concept of equality of the sexes in l...
  96. Bahá'í International Community. Mujeres y Hombres, Una Sociedad para un Planeta Saludable (1991). — Exposición presentada al "World Women's Congress for a Healthy Planet", Miami, Florida, 8-12 Noviem...
  97. Munirih Khanum. Sammireh Anwar Smith, trans. Munirih Khanum: Memoirs and Letters (1986). — Autobiography of Khanum (1847-1938), the wife of Abdu'l-Baha. Includes the arrangements for her marr...
  98. Negar Mottahedeh. Mutilated Body of the Modern Nation: Qurrat al-'Ayn's Unveiling and the Persian Massacre of the Bábís (1998). — A Freudian interpretation of the extreme antipathy underlying common Iranian opposition to the Babis...
  99. Bahá'í World Centre. National Spiritual Assembly members who are women, Percentage of, 1953-2007 (1998). — Two letters from the House, with attached tables, showing the number of women serving on NSAs 1953-1...
  100. Robert Weinberg. New Cycle of Human Power, A: Abdu'l-Bahá's Encounters with Modernist Writers and Artists (2021). — On the impact of ‘Abdu’l-Baha on a number of individuals who were at the cultural vanguard of a ...
  101. Douglas Martin. Next Stage, The (2013). — Baha'i scholars find themselves at a stage in the Faith’s development where they must construct a ...
  102. Negar Mottahedeh. Off the Grid: Reading Iranian Memoirs in Our Time of Total War (2004). — Observations on contemporary culture and gender issues in Iran.
  103. Universal House of Justice. One Common Faith (2005). — Review of relevant passages from both the writings of Baha'u'llah and the scriptures of other faiths...
  104. Mark Brush. Perceiving Differences: A Look at Gender and Equality (1988). — Observations on what Richard DeNovellis' "Personality Type Preference Indicator" tests show about ag...
  105. Universal House of Justice. Possibility of a Woman Being Designated a Manifestation of God (1999). — No elucidation in the writings of 'Abdu'l-Baha or Shoghi Effendi has been found for the passage "......
  106. Moojan Momen. Power and the Bahá'í community (2018). — While Baha'i social teachings may have sounded new and exciting a century ago, that is no longer the...
  107. Moojan Momen. Preliminary Survey of the Bahá'í Community of Iran during the Nineteenth Century, A (1998). — On the early growth and consolidation of the Baha'i community in Iran; its membership and social and...
  108. Bahá'í International Community. Preparación para Vivir en Paz, La Contribución de la Mujer (1985). — Declaración preparada por la Comunidad Internacional Baha’i para el Seminario Regional Europeo pa...
  109. Baharieh Rouhani Ma'ani. Preparing Bahá'í Communities in the East and West to Embrace Gender Equality (2011). — The way Abdu'l-Baha dealt with the matter of gender equality, some of his writings revealed in honor...
  110. Janet A. Khan. Promoting the Equality of Women and Men: The Role of the Covenant (2000). — The implementation of the principle of gender equality; the application of relevant Baha’i law, in...
  111. Michael Karlberg. Pursuit of Social Justice, The (2022). — An interdisciplinary examination of prevailing conceptions of human nature, power, social organizati...
  112. A.L.M. Nicolas. Peter Terry, trans. Qourrèt-oul-Aíne [Qurratu'l-`Ayn] (2004). — First publication in English translation of early accounts of the life and death of Tahirih. These p...
  113. Susan Maneck and Baharieh Rouhani Ma'ani et al. Question of Gender, A: A Forum on the Status of Men in Bahá'í Law (1987). — Six authors address issues of theology, sociology, law, inheritance, equality, the Kitab-i-Aqdas, ma...
  114. Anna Kunz. Questions about Science and Religion: Interviews with Abdul Baha at Tiberias and Haifa (1922). — Questions asked of Abdu'l-Baha by two Christians visiting Haifa in 1921.
  115. Kamran Ekbal. Quranic Roots of Some Legal and Theological Terms of the Kitáb-i Aqdas Regarding Women and Homosexual Relations, The (1995). — Interpretations and etymologies of Arabic terms for prostitution, virginity, dowry, menstruation, so...
  116. Bahá'í International Community. Raising Children of Light: editorial (2008). — In seeking to end the world's suffering, we need to acknowledge that we are all one human race in an...
  117. Michael L. Penn. Reflections on Human Rights, Moral Development, and the Global Campaign to Eradicate Gender-Based Violence (2001). — A review some of the most significant developments in human rights law designed to contribute to the...
  118. Universal House of Justice. Reflections on the First Century of the Formative Age (2023). — Overview of the Faith's developments and activities during the previous century, including the Guard...
  119. Donna Hakimian. Resistance, Resilience and the Role of Narrative: Lessons from the Experiences of Iranian Bahá'í Women Prisoners (2009). — A study of Iranian Baha’i women who were imprisoned in Iran following the 1979 revolution. Aspects...
  120. Elizabeth Shema. Response, by Bahiyyih Nakhjavani: Review (1986).
  121. Deborah Clark Vance. Rethinking Women's Nature (2010).
  122. Geoffrey Cameron and Tahirih Danesh. Revolution without Rights?, A: Women, Kurds and Baha'is searching for equality in Iran (2008). — Discussion from the Foreign Policy Centre in London on the religious, legal, and social obstacles to...
  123. Sonja van Kerkhoff. Rewriting the Script: Some thoughts on gender roles and the Bahá'í Teachings (2000). — A collection of visual and physical art exploring these themes.
  124. Hoda Mahmoudi and Richard Dabell. Rights and Responsibilities in the Bahá'í Family System (1992). — Duties ascribed in the Baha’i teachings to the members of the family; complementary functions of w...
  125. Stephen Ramo. Rizal, Revelation and Revolution: Rizal's Letter to the Women of Malolos and Baha'u'llah's letter to Nabil Akbar Lawh-i-Hikmat (Tablet of Wisdom) (2011). — Comparison of letter by Philippine national hero José Rizal to the women of Malolos with Baha'u'lla...
  126. Ross Woodman. Role of the Feminine in the Bahá'í Faith, The (1995). — On the terms 'Masculine' and 'Feminine' as referring to 2 interdependent energies at work within the...
  127. Marion Woodman. Role of the Feminine in the New Era, The (1989). — The  unveiled feminine, symbolized by the unveiling of the Persian poet Tahirih at the conference ...
  128. Negar Mottahedeh. Ruptured Spaces and Effective Histories: The Unveiling of the Babi Poetess Qurrat al-'Ayn-Tahirih in the Gardens of Badasht (1998). — Implications of Tahirih's revolutionary act at Badasht in terms of a decisive break with Islamic his...
  129. Rhea Howard Harmsen. Science in the Hands of Women: Present Barriers, Future Promise (1998). — What is the attitude of mind that will permit an actualization of women's potential as women, and al...
  130. Selena M. Crosson. Searching for May Maxwell: Bahá'í Millennial Feminism, Transformative Identity and Globalism in the New World Order (2013). — On forces influencing and shaping womens' roles in early Baha’i culture, 1898-1940. A group of Wes...
  131. Ahmad Aniss. Seed of Creation: A philosophical approach towards the status of Universal House of Justice in respect to Baha'i concept of creation (1998). — A philosophical approach towards the status of Universal House of Justice in respect to Baha'i conce...
  132. Peter Mazal. Selected Topics of Comparison in Christianity and the Bahá'í Faith (1999). — Comparison of Baha'i and Christian morality, archetypal events and people (e.g. the ideal woman) in ...
  133. Bradford W. Miller. Seneca Falls First Woman's Rights Convention of 1848: The Sacred Rites of the Nation (1998). — Explores parallels between the Seneca Fails First Woman’s Rights Convention in the USA and the Bad...
  134. Lata Ta'eed. Sex, Gender, and New Age Stereotyping (1994). — Advocates the abolishing of culturally produced differences between men and women and challenges gen...
  135. Shiva Tavana. Sexual Equality in the Bahá'í Community (1986). — Women are oppressed minorities who often feel isolated, even in Baha'i communities. Baha'is need to ...
  136. Moojan Momen. Social Basis of the Bábí Upheavals in Iran (1848-1953): A Preliminary Analysis (1983). — In the mid-19th century, Iran was shaken by unrest caused by the Babi movement, which set off a chai...
  137. Leslie William Kuzyk. Social Justice, Wealth Equity and Gender Equality: Bahá'ís and non-Bahá'ís of Alberta (2003). — Baha'i theology takes distinctive positions on wealth distribution and gender equality. These issues...
  138. Michel P. Zahrai. Spiritual Approach to Microcredit Projects, A (1998). — Spiritual considerations that should guide the elaboration and implementation of microcredit schemes...
  139. Barbara J. Rodey. Spiritual Dimensions of Microfinance, The: Towards a Just Civilization and Sustainable Economy (2001). — Prepared for the Microcredit Summit to emphasize the importance of universal spiritual principles to...
  140. Bahiyyih Nakhjavani. Spiritual Inheritors, The (1987). — Reflections on growing up Baha'i, and a report on a conference about capturing the power of the Six ...
  141. Phyllis Sternberg Perrakis. Spiritual Oppression in Frankenstein (1999). — Comparing Shelley’s depiction of a spiritual malaise in Frankenstein with Baha’u’llah’s defi...
  142. Denis MacEoin. Still Lives (1993). — The nature of private lives and biography in Middle Eastern culture, with brief discussion of Rushdi...
  143. Susan Maneck. Táhirih: A Religious Paradigm of Womanhood (1989). — Tahirih, the Baha'i archetypal paradigm of womanhood, is remembered by Baha’is as the courageous, ...
  144. Universal House of Justice. Tahirih and Women's Suffrage (1990). — Two letters on Tahirih's association with women's suffrage, and the authenticity of the words "You c...
  145. Martha L. Root. Táhirih's Message to the Modern World (1941). — Transcript of a radio address from Sunday April 21, 1940, telling the story of Ṭahirih, describing...
  146. Janet Cundall. "Tahirih: A Religious Paradigm of Womanhood,: Commentary (1992).
  147. Betty Hoff Conow. "The active force and that which is its recipient" (1988). — Metaphysics of gender and the Lawh-i-Hikmat; universal spiritualism; social indoctrination of gender...
  148. Marzieh Gail. The White Silk Dress (1945). — An "intimate portrait" of Ṭahirih first published Friday April 21, 1944.
  149. Mary A. Sobhani. The Woman Who Read Too Much: A Novel, by Bahíyyih Nakhjavani: Review (2018).
  150. Keith Munro. Through the Eyes of Margaret Cousins: Irish and Indian Suffragette (2018). — Biography of the co-founder of the Irish Women's Franchise League, a theosophist, who met both Mart...
  151. Bahá'u'lláh and Abdu'l-Bahá et al Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, comp. To Set the World in Order: Building and Preserving Strong Marriages (2023). — The cause of unity; creating families that illuminate the world; the ideal milieu for learning the p...
  152. Universal House of Justice. To the Believers in the Cradle of the Faith (2009). — Regarding the family and its role in the advancement of civilization.
  153. Adib Masumian, trans. Translation List: Provisional Translations of Baháʼí Literature (2009). — Index to talks, letters, and other items translated from Persian and Arabic to English by Adib Masum...
  154. Bahá'u'lláh and Abdu'l-Bahá et al. Hooshmand Badee, comp. True Foundation of All Economics, The (2000). — Book-length compilation ordered by chapters covering 26 themes on the economy, welfare, development,...
  155. Catherine Nash. Two Books on the Life of Tahirih: Review (2019). — Reviews of Rejoice in My Gladness: The Life of Tahirih and The Calling: Tahirih of Persia and Her Am...
  156. National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States. Two Wings of a Bird: The Equality of Women and Men (1997). — The emancipation of women, the achievement of full equality between the sexes, is essential to human...
  157. Trevor R. J. Finch. Unclipping the Wings: A Survey of Secondary Literature in English on Bahá'í Perspectives on Women (1994). — Annotated bibliography of Baha'i perspectives on women and women's issues.
  158. Bijan Samali. Universality of the Laws of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, The (1996). — The laws of the Aqdas focus on the individual; are applicable to everyone; facilitate the realisatio...
  159. Moojan Momen. Usuli, Akhbari, Shaykhi, Babi: The Tribulations of a Qazvin Family (2003). — The emergence of the Usuli school in the evolution of Shi'is jurisprudence and theology in 18th and ...
  160. Universal House of Justice. Violence Against Women and Children (1993). — Baha’i principles on violence, sexual abuse, family dynamics, gender equality, consultation, child...
  161. Gleibys L. Buchanan. What Do Bahá'ís Believe about Gender? (2011). — Baha'is believe that gender equality must be manifested as a social reality.
  162. Vladimir Chupin. Why There are No Women in the Universal House of Justice (2011). — Upon learning that it is forbidden to elect women to the Universal House of Justice, many people bec...
  163. Elihu Grant. Woman and Islam (1912). — One-paragraph sympathetic mention.
  164. Bahá'u'lláh and Abdu'l-Bahá et al Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, comp. Women (1991). — Explores the status of women in the world, the development of women, the role of education in that d...
  165. Miriam Dixson. Women and Religious Change: A case study in the colonial migrant experience (2000). — The story of Margaret Dixson, and one woman's growth from Anglicanism, via numerology and astrology,...
  166. Baharieh Rouhani Ma'ani. Women and Wisdom in Scripture (2015). — Treatment of women in religion; influence of Baha'i teachings in raising awareness about the plight ...
  167. Diane Chamberlin Starcher. Women Entrepreneurs: Catalysts for Transformation (1997). — Describes the dramatic rise in importance of women entrepreneurs and how feminine qualities contribu...
  168. Anne Gordon Atkinson. Women in Art (1991). — Historically there have been many impediments to women achieving success in art: household duties, t...
  169. Susan Maneck. Women in the Bahá'í Faith (1994). — Baha'i paradigms of womanhood, and some highlights of women's participation in the Faith's history.
  170. Moojan Momen. Women in the works of the Bab and in the Babi Movement (2011). — Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
  171. Universal House of Justice. Women on the House of Justice; meaning of "Umumi" (1997). — Clarifies that 'Abdu'l-Baha, in a tablet to Corinne True, indeed refers to the Universal House of Ju...
  172. Universal House of Justice. Women on the Universal House of Justice (1988). — Response to a paper presented at a Baha'i Studies conference which raised the possibility that women...
  173. Universal House of Justice. Women Serving as Continental Counselors or in the International Teaching Centre, Percentage of: 1980-2010 (2013). — Chart showing the percentage of women serving as members of the Continental Boards of Counsellors fr...
  174. Geeta Gandhi Kingdon. Women's Education and Socio-Economic Development: The Pathways of Impact (2010).
  175. Warwick Bahá'í Bookshop. Women, The Status of: Warwick Leaflets (1995). — Overview of the status of women in education, marriage, and the future.
  176. John Walbridge. Reina Pennington, ed. Zaynab (2003). — Brief biography of a female Babi fighter.
  177. Hussein Ahdieh. طاهره پیشتار آزادی زنان شرق (Táhirih Písh-tár Ázádí-yi Zanán-i Sharq): Tahirih: Forerunner of Women's Liberation in the East (2019). — A biographical work on the life of Tahirih detailing significant moments including her early years, ...

2.   from the Chronology (53 results)

  1. 1848-06-26 — The Conference of Badasht Baha'u'llah, who hosted and directed the event, rented three gardens, one ...
  2. 1848-07-19 — The Women's Rights Convention was held in the Wesleyan Chapel at Seneca Falls, NY. The principle org...
  3. 1850-05-19 — The Governor sent a mob against Hujjat, (Mulla Muhammad-Ali) which was dispersed by Mir Salah. The G...
  4. 1852-08-16 — The martyrdom of Tahirih (Qurratu'l-'Ayn) in Tihran. [BBR172-3; BBRSM:30; BW18:382; BKG87; MF203] ...
  5. 1901-05-29 — The Baha'i women of Chicago elected their own Board and held the first business meeting of the `Wome...
  6. 1909-01-00 — Isabella Brittingham organized 12 Baha'i women into a `Unity Band' to write monthly to the 12 Baha'i...
  7. 1909-11-25 — Dr Susan Moody, a famed American homeopathist, arrived in Tihran. She and four Persian Baha'i docto...
  8. 1909-11-26 — Within a year of her arrival in Persia, Dr. Susan Moody opened the Tarbiyat School for Girls in Tihr...
  9. 1913-08-28 — 'Abdu'l-Baha revealed a <a href="https://www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/abdul-baha/par
  10. 1917-00-00 — The passing of Hand of the Cause of God Haji Mirza Muhammad-Taqiy-i-Abhari (Ibn-i-Abhar). He was bo...
  11. 1930-00-00 — In Iran " [i]n the early years of the 1930s Baha'i women joined the movement of discarding the veil ...
  12. 1936-00-02 — The first woman was elected to the National Spiritual Assembly of India, Shirin Fozdar....
  13. 1944-00-00 — In Iran a Central Women's Progress Committee was formed to organize women's activities throughout th...
  14. 1946-10-11 — The Baha'is of Iran launched a Forty-five Month Plan, the <a href="https://bahaipedia.org/Persian...
  15. 1951-00-07 — Baha'i women in Egypt were extended the right of membership on local spiritual assemblies. [MBW12] ...
  16. 1954-04-00 — Baha'i women in Iran were accorded full rights to participate in membership of both national and loc...
  17. 1954-04-21 — Adelaide Sharp, who had been in Iran since 1929, was elected to the National Spiritual Assembly of I...
  18. 1956-04-00 — Shoghi Effendi announced the extension to Egyptian Baha'i women of the right to be elected to the Na...
  19. 1975-02-01 — The first Baha'i Women's Conference of the Solomon Islands took place at Auki, Malaita Island, atten...
  20. 1977-03-24 — In a cabled message, the Universal House of Justice called upon Baha'i women around the world to ari...
  21. 1977-10-13 — The Asian Baha'i Women's Conference was held in New Delhi, attended by more than a thousand women fr...
  22. 1977-12-02 — The first International Conference of Baha'i Women in South America was held in Lima, Peru, attended...
  23. 1978-01-15 — The first National Baha'i Women's Conference of Niger took place....
  24. 1978-12-28 — The West African Baha'i Women's Conference was held in Monrovia, Liberia with the theme, "Spiritual ...
  25. 1983-02-24 — The inauguration of the Baha'i Vocational Institute for Rural Women at Indore, India. It offered rur...
  26. 1985-07-15 — Ten representatives of the Baha'i International Community attended the third World Conference on Wom...
  27. 1986-01-01 — The publication of the compilation entitled "Women" by the Universal House of Justice. [Messages63-8...
  28. 1988-00-00 — The Baha'i International Community became a founding member of 'Advocates for African Food Security:...
  29. 1988-03-08 — Shirin Fozdar, ardent champion of women's rights and influential women's leader, was honoured for he...
  30. 1988-05-31 — The Universal House of Justice wrote to the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of New Zealan...
  31. 1988-07-15 — The first International Women's Conference of Paraguay opened, attended by 130 women from seven coun...
  32. 1989-03-23 — The First National Women's Conference of Spain was held in Madrid. [BINS201:6]...
  33. 1989-10-21 — The Southern African Baha'i Association for the Advancement of Women was formed in Johannesburg. [BI...
  34. 1990-04-21 — Maureen Nakekea and Marao Teem were elected to the National Spiritual Assembly of Kiribati, the firs...
  35. 1992-06-05 — The Baha'i Vocational Institute for Rural Women, a non-profit education project based in Indore, Ind...
  36. 1992-12-00 — The Universal House of Justice announced its decision to establish an Office for the Advancement of ...
  37. 1995-08-30 — Some 400-500 Baha'i women and men from more than 50 countries around the world participated in the N...
  38. 1995-09-04 — Fourth World Conference on Women was held at the Beijing International Conference Centre. It was on
  39. 1996-03-23 — The first National Women's Seminar of Bulgaria was held in Sofia, organized by the European Task For...
  40. 1997-00-01 — The Tahirih Justice Center was founded to address the acute need for legal services of immigrant and...
  41. 1998-03-02 — During the 42nd Session of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in March, the Baha'i Internation...
  42. 2000-10-31 — The United Nations Security Council unanimously passed Resolution 1325 on <a href="https://docume...
  43. 2003-03-11 — Bani Dugal Gujral was appointed Principal Representative of the Baha'i International Community to th...
  44. 2003-12-16 — Shirin Ebadi, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, the first Muslim woman to win the coveted distincti...
  45. 2004-02-11 — A member of the British Baha'i community, Lois Hainsworth, received the award of Member of the Orde...
  46. 2006-02-27 — The 50th session of the Commission on the Status of Women was held at the UN Headquarters in New Yor...
  47. 2008-02-25 — The 52nd session of the Commission on the Status of Women was held at the United Nations headquarter...
  48. 2012-11-15 — In contribution to the 57th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women the Baha'i Internationa...
  49. 2018-03-12 — The Baha'i International Community in New York released the statement <a href="https://www.bic.or...
  50. 2018-04-15 — The design for the local Baha'i House of Worship was unveiled at a gathering in Matunda Soy, Kenya a...
  51. 2020-06-29 — The National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Papua New Guinea issued a statement through its Ex...
  52. 2020-09-18 — The passing of Talat Bassari (b. 1923 Babol, Iran) in Los Angeles. She was an Iranian Baha'i poet, f...
  53. 2021-08-31 — A four-day gathering, attended by some 2,000 participants was held in <a href="https://www.googl...

3.   from the Chronology of Canada (1 result)

  1. 1983-11-21 — A brief entitled The Future of Canada: A Baha'i Perspective was presented to The Royal Commission on...
 

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