Theses / dissertations

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1. Baha'i Apocalypticism: The Concept of Progressive Revelation, by Zaid Lundberg (1996). [about]
2. Baha'i Principle of Religious Unity and the Challenge of Radical Pluralism, by Dann J. May, in Revisioning the Sacred: New Perspectives on a Bahá’í Theology, Studies in the Babi and Baha'i Religions (1993). A shorter version of this thesis is published in Revisioning the Sacred as "The Bahá'í Principle of Religious Unity: A Dynamic Perspectivism." [about]
3. Development of Shaykhi Thought in Shi'i Islam, The, by Vahid Rafati (1979). [about]
4. Dying for God: Martyrdom in the Shii and Babi Religions, by Jonah Winters (1997). Religious and cultural meanings of martyrdom/witnessing, and their role in Babi history. [about]
5. Examination of the Environmental Crisis, by Chris Jones Kavelin (2001). With a specific focus on the balance between the instrumental and intrinsic value of nature From a Baha'i perspective. [about]
6. Faith, Theory, and Practice: Interracial Marriage as a Symbol of the Oneness of Humanity, by Benjamin Leiker (2004). [about]
7. Food, Justice, and the Baha'i Faith, by Paul Fieldhouse (2005). PhD Dissertation tests the claim that "food," both literal and metaphorical, provides a practical way through which Bahá’ís can articulate and achieve their ethical goals. [about]
8. From Sect to Church: A Sociological Interpretation of the Baha'i Movement [excerpt], by Peter Ludwig Berger (1954). Early notable thesis by an eminent sociologist; first chapter only. [about]
9. Growth and Spread of the Baha'i Faith, The, by Arthur Hampson (1980). A detailed attempt to describe and account for the spread of the Baha'i Faith, including the roles played by its centralized leadership, its belief system, and its policies, as well as attitudes and conditions outside the control of the Baha'i movement. [about]
10. Increasing Complexity as a Process in Social Evolution: A Case Study of the Baha'i Faith, by Mark A. Foster (1980). [about]
11. Organizing Digital Collections: The Case of the Baha'i Academics Resource Library, by Dharlene Valeda (2001). Library Science analysis of the Baha'i Library's content and architecture, observations about online information retrieval, and ways to structure digital libraries. [about]
12. Paradise and Paradigm: Key Symbols in 'Persian' Christianity and the Baha'i Faith, by Christopher Buck (1996). The dissertation which would later be published as Paradise and Paradigm (SUNY, 1999) [about]
13. Preliminary Analysis of the Baha'i Concept of Mental Health, by Laura Herzog (1998). [about]
14. Same Yet Different, The: Bahá’í Perspectives on Achieving Unity out of Difference, by Deborah Clark Vance (2002). [about]
15. Selected Topics of Comparison in Christianity and the Baha'i Faith, by Peter Mazal (1999). Comparison of Baha'i and Christian morality, archetypal events and people (e.g. the ideal woman) in early Christian and Bábí-Bahá'í history plus concepts of Christ (Christology) and the Messiah compared to Prophets, Messengers and Manifestations of God. [about]
16. Social Justice, Wealth Equity and Gender Equality: Baha'is and non-Baha'is of Alberta, by Leslie William Kuzyk (2003). Baha'i theology takes distinctive positions on wealth distribution and gender equality. These issues are causal factors in a more just model of society. A social survey establishes empirically whether a Baha'i population differs from common society. [about]
17. Thinking in Buddhism: Nagarjuna's Middle Way, by Jonah Winters (1994). BA thesis on the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, central text of a school of thought that later evolved and migrated to become Zen Buddhism. (Contains no mention of the Bahá'í Faith.) [about]
18. Unity in Diversity: Acceptance and Integration in an Era of Intolerance and Fragmentation, by Roxanne Lalonde (1994). Short excerpt from thesis, edited as a stand-alone article. [about]
19. When Science and Religion Merge: A Modern Case Study, by Salman Oskooi (2009). The problem of disharmony between scripture and science is rooted in an unwarranted misattribution of scriptural inerrancy. [about]

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