1. 2025-09. Principled Engagement: The Bahá'í Community of Iran's Approach to Social Change. Iqan Shahidi. — Analyzes the Iranian Baha’i community’s principled, non-adversarial engagement in social change,... Articles.
2. 2025-04-21. Elements of a Global Spiritual Endeavor (1996 - 2021). Various. — Seven separate articles constituting "Chapter 2" of Baha'i World v. 35, on the development of the Ba... Introductory.
3. 2025-04-21. Women and Social Progress: Building Communities Based on Dynamic Partnership. Bahá'í World. — Highlights the Baha’i principle of gender equality, showing its spiritual basis and global applica... Articles.
4. 2025-04-21. Global Community, A. Bahá'í World. — The global Baha’i community advances unity, social transformation, and spiritual principles throug... Articles.
5. 2025. Bahá'í World, The: Volume 35 (2006-2021). Various, Universal House of Justice, comp. . — Periodic volumes that survey the global activities and major achievements of the Faith. This book is... Books.
6. 2023-2026. BWNS Podcasts: Conversations and Insights from the Field. Bahá'í World News Service. — Links to 42 interviews and narratives highlighting how Baha’i individuals and communities worldwid... Audio.
7. 2019-05. Bonds that Sustain: Bahá'í Community-Building Efforts Through the Lens of Disaster Response. Bani Dugal. — On disaster response in the Baha'i community, systems of human resource development, community-build... Articles.
8. 2018. Power and the Bahá'í community. Moojan Momen. — While Baha'i social teachings may have sounded new and exciting a century ago, that is no longer the... Articles.
9. 2016. Intellectual Life of the Bahá'í Community, The. Farzam Arbab. — The 34th Hasan M. Balyuzi Memorial Lecture at the ABS conference in Montreal, on the need for us to ... Talks.
10. 2015/2020-08. Community and Collective Action. Gustavo Correa. — On the hopeful efforts of groups of people around the world to build a new kind of community based o... Essays.
11. 2010. Cycles of Growth of the American Bahá'í Community. Robert Stockman. — PowerPoint presentation on the history of the American community, 1894-2009. Presentations.
12. 2009/2016. Guidelines for Spiritual Assemblies: Developing Distinctive Bahá'í Communities. National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States. — Updated version of Developing Distinctive Baha'i Communities: Guidelines for Spiritual Assemblies, t... Compilations-NSA.
13. 2008-08-29. Learning and the Unfoldment of the Bahá'í Community. Paul Lample. — Two slightly different versions of the Plenary Address to the ABS conference. Talks.
14. 2008. New Development in the Bahá'í Community, A. R. Mehrabkhani. — On the three stages in the growth of each religion, and the new instruments for the correct implemen... Essays.
15. 2008. Emergence from Obscurity: The Journey of Sociology in the Bahá'í Community. Will C. van den Hoonaard. — The field of sociology and the Baha’i Faith share important principles and both challenge widely-h... Articles.
16. 2005-03-08. African American Baha'is, Race Relations and the Development of the Baha'i Community in the United States. Richard Thomas. — Robert Turner, Susie Steward, Louis Gregory, and the roles played by blacks in the history of the Ba... Audio.
17. 2005. Globalization of the Bahá'í Community: 1892-1921, The. Moojan Momen. — On the connection between Abdu’l-Baha’s thinking and his practical directives in the global expa... Articles.
18. 2005. Changing Reality: The Bahá'í Community and the Creation of a New Reality. Moojan Momen. — The Baha’i teachings criticize the socially created realities of warfare, environmental destruc... Articles.
19. 2003/2008/2018/2023. For the Betterment of the World: The Worldwide Bahá'í Community's Approach to Social and Economic Development. Office of Social and Economic Development. — Essays, photographs, and overviews of local projects around the world, illustrating how Baha'i princ... Introductory.
20. 2002. Legacies and Prospects: Baha'i Community Building Yesterday and Tomorrow. Ismael Velasco. — On the rise and evolution of a world Baha'i community in the 20th century, and new paradigms for com... Articles-unpublished.
21. 2001/2005. Etching the Idea of "Unity in Diversity" in the Bahá'í Community: Popular Notion or Organizing Principle?. Will C. van den Hoonaard. — On the meanings of "unity in diversity" in Baha'i culture and scholarship and its occurrence in lite... Articles.
22. 2001. Human Rights and the Rights of the Child: Implications for Children's Participation in the Bahá'í Community. Greg Duly. — Are human rights universal? Do rights have spiritual or religious influences? What is the relevance ... Articles.
23. 2000. Community Functioning, Issues Concerning: Fostering the Development of Bahá'í Communities. Shoghi Effendi, Universal House of Justice, Universal House of Justice, Research Department, comp. . — Extensive guidance on community development. Includes extracts from letters written on behalf of Sho... UHJ-letters.
24. 1999. Maturation and Learning in the Bahá'í Community. David Levick. — The paradigm for Baha'i decision-making and consultation; relativist vs. subjectivist ontology; herm... Articles.
25. 1999. Creating a New Mind: Reflections on the Individual, the Institutions, and the Community. Paul Lample. — On the influence of the human mind in shaping human reality, and three vehicles for changing reality... Books.
26. 1998. Preliminary Survey of the Bahá'í Community of Iran during the Nineteenth Century, A. Moojan Momen. — On the early growth and consolidation of the Baha'i community in Iran; its membership and social and... Articles.
27. 1998. Developing Distinctive Bahá'í Communities: Guidelines for Spiritual Assemblies. National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States. — A guide to community development, for historical purposes only, originally intended to be made "avai... NSA-documents.
28. 1998. Bibliography of sociological or anthropological studies on the contemporary Baha'i Community. Will C. van den Hoonaard, comp. — Current only through 1998. Bibliographies.
29. 1997-04-21. Meaning of Community, The. Ann Boyles. — Exploring challenges and hopes for future community, critiques global capitalism, technology, and di... Articles.
30. 1997. Shoghi Effendi: Guide for a New Millennium. Glenford Mitchell. — The Baha'i community is a global laboratory in which a transformation in individual and collective b... Essays.
31. 1996. Bahá'í Community of Canada, The: A Case Study in the Transplantation of Non-Western Religious Movements to Western Societies. Will C. van den Hoonaard. — The origins and early life of the Baha'i community in Canada as a sociological case study in the tra... Articles.
32. 1994-09-05. Broad Contours of the Canadian Baha'i Community. Will C. van den Hoonaard, Deborah K. van den Hoonaard. — Historical and sociological overview of the Canadian Baha'i community. Articles-unpublished.
33. 1993-12. Community, Baha'i. Will C. van den Hoonaard. Encyclopedia.
34. 1992. Bahá'í Communities in the West, 1897-1992. Richard Hollinger. — Sociological survey of major trends in the American Baha'i community from the nineteenth century to ... Articles.
35. 1991-03. Spiritual Health of American Community. Universal House of Justice. — Publication of a letter addressing an individual's concerns for the spiritual health of the American... UHJ-letters.
36. 1991. Bahá'í Community of Ashkhabad, The: Its Social Basis and Importance in Bahá'í History. Moojan Momen. — Origin and history of the Baha'is in Ishqabad (Ashgabat) in Turkistan, analysis of the social compos... Articles.
37. 1989. Iran, Bahá'í Community of. Vahid Rafati. — Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite. Encyclopedia.
38. 1987. Love and Estrangement in the Bahá'í Community, by Arnold Nerenberg: Review. Sidney Edward Morrison. — On personal feelings of alienation in the Baha'i community, self image, and backbiting. Reviews.
39. 1986. Cultural Pluralism in the Bahá'í Community. Margaret Caton (published as Peggy Caton). — The idea of relative truth implies a situational approach to living. Baha'i teachings encourage both... Articles.
40. 1983-09-01. Spiritual Growth, Essential Requisites for. Universal House of Justice. — Letter to Europe; its historically-recent turn away from religion, six ways to improve spirituality,... UHJ-letters.

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