1. 2025-09. Principled Engagement: The Bahá'í Community of Iran's Approach to Social Change. Iqan Shahidi. Analyzes the Iranian Bahá’í community’s principled, non-adversarial engagement in social change, highlighting constructive resilience, community building, and non-political contributions despite persecution. Articles.
2. 2025-04-21. Elements of a Global Spiritual Endeavor (1996 - 2021). Various. Seven separate articles constituting "Chapter 2" of Bahá'í World v. 35, on the development of the Bahá'í community since 1996 and insights that have been gained along the way. Introductory.
3. 2025-04-21. Women and Social Progress: Building Communities Based on Dynamic Partnership. Bahá'í World. Highlights the Bahá’í principle of gender equality, showing its spiritual basis and global application through education, leadership, and community action. Articles.
4. 2025-04-21. Global Community, A. Bahá'í World. The global Bahá’í community advances unity, social transformation, and spiritual principles through systematic learning, community-building, and inclusive, grassroots action worldwide; overview of 1996–2021. 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 not yet fully online. 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 Bahá’í individuals and communities worldwide apply spiritual principles to education, governance, equality, and social transformation, fostering unity and the betterment of society. 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 Bahá'í community, systems of human resource development, community-building capacity, coordination, communication, collective action, and spiritual needs. Articles.
8. 2018. Power and the Bahá'í community. Moojan Momen. While Bahá'í social teachings may have sounded new and exciting a century ago, that is no longer the case today. The problem the world faces is not in the principles that would lead to a better society, but in their application. 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 have intellectual courage, a lack of elitism, and the harmony of science and religion. Includes video, published version, and an outline of the talk. 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 on the oneness of humankind, and the vision and process guiding these efforts. 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 Bahá'í Communities: Guidelines for Spiritual Assemblies, to be available to "all Local Spiritual Assemblies" and "each of their members," which was posted various places online. 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 implementation of the Bahá'í plans, the Cluster and its Reflection Meetings, and the Ruhi course. 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 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. 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 Bahá'ís of the US. 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 expansion of the Baha’i religion, considered in light of Jan Aart Scholte's globalization categories: normative, psychological, economic, and institutional. Articles.
18. 2005. Changing Reality: The Bahá'í Community and the Creation of a New Reality. Moojan Momen. The Bahá’í teachings criticize the socially created realities of warfare, environmental destruction, and the subordination of women, lower social classes and ethnic minorities, instead promoting a vision of global solidarity and individual worth. 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 Bahá'í principles are being carried out in practice, prepared by the Office of Social and Economic Development of the Bahá'í International Community. Introductory.
20. 2002. Legacies and Prospects: Baha'i Community Building Yesterday and Tomorrow. Ismael Velasco. On the rise and evolution of a world Bahá'í community in the 20th century, and new paradigms for community building. 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 Bahá'í culture and scholarship and its occurrence in literature; aesthetic and functional analogies; use in governance. 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 of child rights and prospects of children’s participation in the Bahá’í community? 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 Shoghi Effendi on fostering the evolution of Bahá'í communities. UHJ-letters.
24. 1999. Maturation and Learning in the Bahá'í Community. David Levick. The paradigm for Bahá'í decision-making and consultation; relativist vs. subjectivist ontology; hermeneutic-dialectic methodology; the unconscious process of decision-making vs. learning a mature and conscious process of decision-making. 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: the individual, the institutions, and the community at large. Two versions of book included. 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 Bahá'í community in Iran; its membership and social and geographical composition; persecution; institutional developments; communications with Bahá'u'lláh; the conversion of Jews and Zoroastrians; women. 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 "available electronically to all Local Spiritual Assemblies." (Links to document, offsite.) 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 dislocation while proposing values-based, sustainable, inclusive alternatives. Articles.
30. 1997. Shoghi Effendi: Guide for a New Millennium. Glenford Mitchell. The Bahá'í community is a global laboratory in which a transformation in individual and collective behaviour is progressing, leading to a new sense of community and the glimmerings of a new world order. 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 Bahá'í community in Canada as a sociological case study in the transplantation of non-Western faiths into Western settings. 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 Bahá'í 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 Bahá'í community from the nineteenth century to the present — a broad framework in which the history of local communities can be understood. 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 Bahá’í community, and suggestions for personal action. (Letter dated Dec. 24 1990, published March 1991.) 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 Bahá'ís in Ishqabad (Ashgabat) in Turkistan, analysis of the social composition of this community, and its importance of in terms of the rest of the Bahá'í world. 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 Bahá'í 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. Bahá'í teachings encourage both diversity and harmonious co-existence. 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, and the importance of prayer and meditation. UHJ-letters.

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