1. 1998. First Public Mentions of the Bahá'í Faith in the West. Bahá'í Information Office of the UK. Short essay based on research by Moojan Momen and Derek Cockshutt. The first mention for the Faith in the West was not in 1893, but rather in a number of earlier talks on the Faith in England, and reports on the Babis in the 1850s. Essays.
2. 1995. Early Western Accounts of the Babi and Bahá'í Faiths. Moojan Momen. Encyclopedia.
3. 1981. Babi and Bahá'í Religions 1844-1944: Some Contemporary Western Accounts. Moojan Momen, ed. A lengthy collection of first-hand reports and mentions of the Bábí and Bahá'í religions in contemporaneous accounts and newspapers. Books.
4. 1852-1922. Mention of the Babi and Baha'i Faiths in the New York Times 1852 - 1922. Various. 45 articles and brief mentions, spanning 70 years. Newspapers.

1. 1893-09-23 —
   First public reference in North America to the Bahá'í Faith. [SBBH1p76]
   • Reference was made to it in a paper entitled The Religious Mission of the English Speaking Nations by Rev. Henry H. Jessup, a retired missionary from north Syria, read by Rev George A. Ford at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago. [AB63–4; BBD2412; BBR57; BFA1:323; BW2:230; GPB256; SBBH1:76, 88, 202]
     See The Babites, a paper by Henry Jessup that was published in The Outlook 22nd June, 1901 in which he recounts meeting 'Abdu'l-Bahá.
   • See AB63–4, BW2:169 for text.
   • Historians have observed that, before this Parliament, "religion" was classified by many Americans into ethnic religion and universal religion. They considered there being only one universal religion: Christianity. In this view, all previous faiths were ethnic religions, and their purpose was to prepare the people for Christianity. Ethnic religions may have had portions of the truth, but only Christianity had all truth. This 1893 Parliament was a pivotal moment in the abolition of such classification, as representatives of "eastern" religions such as Swami Vivekananda and Anagarika Dharmapala promoted a new religious tolerance. [Paraphrased quote from Robert Stockman]
   • World Parliament of Religions 1893, a talk by Mr. Rothwell "Bud" Polk.
   • See Chicago 1893.

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