- Will C. van den Hoonaard. Bahá'í Community of Canada, The: A Case Study in the Transplantation of Non-Western Religious Movements to Western Societies (1996). The origins and early life of the Bahá'í community in Canada as a sociological case study in the transplantation of non-Western faiths into Western settings.
- Will C. van den Hoonaard. Bahá'í Community of Canada, The (1997).
- Will C. van den Hoonaard, comp. Bibliography of sociological or anthropological studies on the contemporary Baha'i Community (1998). Current only through 1998.
- Will C. van den Hoonaard and Lynn Echevarria-Howe. Black Roses in Canada's Mosaic: Four Decades of Black History (1994-02). Survey of African-Americans in Canada, their activities in the Bahá'í community, and statistical information.
- Will C. van den Hoonaard and Deborah K. van den Hoonaard. Broad Contours of the Canadian Baha'i Community (1994-09-05). Historical and sociological overview of the Canadian Bahá'í community.
- Will C. van den Hoonaard and William W. Hackborn. Chaos as Metaphor for the Study of Social Processes in the Postmodern World: A Baha'i Illustration (1997-03). How ideas drawn from the study of chaos theory can be used to describe some aspects of a social environment.
- Jon Baldvin. Will C. van den Hoonaard, trans. Chapters from the Mature Story of a Politician (2002). Brief extract from a memoir by Iceland's former Minister of Foreign Affairs Jon Baldvin (Hannibalsson) mentioning some of the Bahá'ís he has met: Will van den Hoonaard, Halldor Thorgeirsson, and John Walbridge
- Will C. van den Hoonaard. Circumpolar Regions (Arctic): History of the Baha'i Faith (1994-03).
- Will C. van den Hoonaard. Community, Baha'i (1993-12).
- Will C. van den Hoonaard. Development and Decline of an Early Bahá'í Community: Saint John, N.B., 1910-1925 (1992). The brief early history of the Saint John Bahá'ís. Established in 1910, the Bahá'í community struggled in the hostile environment of New Brunswick. In 1925 the community disappeared, to be reestablished only in recent times.
- Will C. van den Hoonaard. Dilemmas and Prospects of Writing a Bahá'í Encyclopedia (1989). The need for a Bahá’í encyclopedia and a description of the nature, organization, and editing of the encyclopedic dictionary project endorsed in 1984 by the United States Bahá’ís; dilemmas which accompany its undertaking.
- Will C. van den Hoonaard. East Africa, Bahá'í Communities in (1996). Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
- Will C. van den Hoonaard. Emergence from Obscurity: The Journey of Sociology in the Bahá'í Community (2008). The field of sociology and the Bahá’í Faith share important principles and both challenge widely-held beliefs, yet there has sometimes been a wall of silence separating them. This paper explores how the Faith informs the sociology of Bahá'í scholars.
- Will C. van den Hoonaard and Deborah K. van den Hoonaard. Family Life (1995). Writings of Bahá'u'lláh, `Abdu'l-Bahá, and the Institutions, with commentary reviewing views on family life.
- Will C. van den Hoonaard. Hidden Bounties: Memories of Pioneering on the Magdalene Islands, by Larry Rowdon: Review (1994).
- Will C. van den Hoonaard. Inside The Origins of the Bahá'í Community of Canada 1898-1948: A Personal Narrative (1996-12). A detailed account of the author's experience researching, writing, and publishing this extensive historic study.
- Denis MacEoin and Robert Stockman, et al. Jonah Winters, ed. Is the Bahá'í Faith a "World Religion" or a "New Religious Movement"? (1997-05). Compilation of emails about the socio-religious classification of the Bahá'í Faith.
- Will C. van den Hoonaard. Netherlands: History of the Baha'i Faith (1993-11).
- Will C. van den Hoonaard. Night as Frontier: Some Implications for the Bahá'í Community (1997). Sociological effects of night-shift employment and the nocturnal populace.
- Andrew Rippin and John Renard, et al. Paradise and Paradigm, by Christopher Buck: Reviews (2000/2002). Three short reviews from Studies in Religion, Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, and Humanities.
- Will C. van den Hoonaard. Prejudice and Discrimination (1993-11). Prejudice is cultural. History shows no society is immune. U.S. Bahá'ís facilitated Racial Amity groups in the 20s and 30s, and found ignorance plus apathy are key factors in prejudice. Reducing it requires a universal commitment to the unity of humanity.
- Will C. van den Hoonaard. Question of Gender in Canadian Baha'i History, The (1994-06). The position of Bahá'í women in the Canadian community and the extent to which they participated in teaching and administrative activities.
- Will C. van den Hoonaard. Registry of Early Canadian Believers (1987-03). A report on the recent progress in developing the Registry of Early Canadian Believers, 1893-1944, an adjunct project of A Short Encyclopedia
of the Bahá'í Faith.
- Will C. van den Hoonaard. Schopflocher, Siegfried (2009). On the Canadian Bahá’í of German-Jewish background named by Shoghi Effendi a Hand of the Cause of God in 1952.
- Will C. van den Hoonaard. Schopflocher, Siegfried (1993-06). Short biography of a prominent Baha''i from a German-Jewish background who served as a Hand of the Cause of God.
- Will C. van den Hoonaard. Social Activism Among Some Early Twentieth-Century Bahá'ís (2006). Socialist involvement of some of Canada's earliest Bahá'ís, before and after the prohibition of involvement in political affairs.
- Will C. van den Hoonaard. Social Organization of Mentorship in Bahá'í Studies, The (1998). Mentorship in contemporary Bahá’í Studies is influenced by gender inequality, generational differences, and a perceived hierarchical order of disciplines. How can these limitations be overcome?
- Will C. van den Hoonaard. Socio-demographic Characteristics of the Canadian Baha'i Community (1991). Statistics and analysis of enrollment and growth patterns.
- Will C. van den Hoonaard. "The Role of Material Goods in Spiritual Development," by Lin Poyer: Commentary (1989).
- Will C. van den Hoonaard. Unfreezing the frame: The promise of inductive research in Bahá'í studies (2001). The suitability of inductive analysis as a method in Bahá'í scholarship, and some stumbling blocks that inhibit the development of a Bahá'í methodology.
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