Personal pages by Baha'i Library contributors

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1. Communicative Interaction: Relating Habermasian Universalism to Baha'i Consultation, by Jonah Winters (1996). The philosophy of Jurgen Habermas has been influential in formulating definitions of morality. These theories are similar to the unique use by Baha'is of "consultation" as a tool for creating civil societies and nonrepressive moral codes. [about]
2. Comparison of Islamic Religious Modes with the Four Valleys of Bahá'u'lláh, by Dianne Bradford (1998). Comparison of stages in The Four Valleys with three approaches from Islam: Theologians, Muslim Philosophers, and Mystics. [about]
3. Contributors and assistants. [about]
4. Course on Teaching Christians about the Baha'i Faith, by Dianne Bradford (1999). Compilation of quotes from the Baha'i Writings to aid in the teaching of the Faith to Christians, including answers to some questions posed by Christians. [about]
5. 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]
6. Hidden Words: Training Course on, by Dianne Bradford (1998). [about]
7. John Cornell: in memoriam (2001). [about]
8. Martyrdom in Jihad, by Jonah Winters (1997). Unlike Judeo-Christianity, Islam does not contain a core of martyrdom. Rather, it occurs in three disparate areas: war/jihad, asceticism, and Shi'ism. I examine the relationship between jihad and martyrdom and their classical and contemporary meanings. [about]
9. Origins of Shi'ism: A Consensus of Western Scholarship, by Jonah Winters (1996). Shi'ism, representing about 10% of the umma, is often regarded as illegitimate by the majority Sunnis. Using Western historiographical methods, I examine three key events occuring during the life of Muhammad that are used to legitimize Shi'i origins. [about]
10. Personal Page: Brett Zamir. [about]
11. Personal Page: Dianne Bradford: Deepening and teaching materials (1999). [about]
12. Personal Page: Ehsan Bayat. Ehsan Bayat's personal compilations. [about]
13. Personal Page: Gary Fuhrman (2001). [about]
14. Personal page: Jonah Winters. My personal links, theses, and papers. [about]
15. Personal Page: Ralph W. Wagner (1999). [about]
16. Personal Page: Sen McGlinn. [about]
17. Personal Page: Sonja van Kerkhoff: arts reviews, essays. [about]
18. Pioneering Over Four Epochs: The End of Part 1: An Autobiographical Study and a Study in Autobiography, by Ron Price. This autobiography/memoir of a Bahai over six decades of teaching and international travel is one of the few extensive personal accounts of the experience of a Western Bahai beginning in the second epoch (1944-1963) of the Formative Age. [about]
19. References to Christ in His Tablet to Pope Pius IX, by Dianne Bradford (1998). [about]
20. Rewriting the Script: Some thoughts on gender roles and the Baha'i Teachings, by Sonja van Kerkhoff (2000). [about]
21. Saying Nothing about No-Thing: Apophatic Theology in the Classical World, by Jonah Winters (1994). This paper examines and relates the apophatic (negative) theology of the Neoplatonism of Plotinus and some pre-Pseudo-Dionysius eastern Christian thinkers. [about]
22. Shi'i Qur'an: An Examination of Western Scholarship, by Jonah Winters (1997). In the Kitab-i-Iqan (pp. 84-89) Baha'u'llah rejects the charge that the text of the Bible has been tampered with. Many Shi'is have charged the same, accusing Sunnis of removing the proofs of Ali's appointment as leader of the community from the Qur'an. [about]
23. Themes of 'The Erotic' in Sufi Mysticism, by Jonah Winters (1996). Mystical writing is replete with symbolism of love and eros, and it can also be found in the mystical poetry of Baha'u'llah. This paper provides background for that topic by surveying the use of themes of the erotic in writings by seven Sufi mystics. [about]
24. 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]

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