- Brian J. Mistler. Bahá'í Faith: Prophecy and Conversion (2001-02). — Results of a field study of Baha'is in the United States and Australia which demonstrate that family...
- Adam Berry. Bahá'í Faith and Its Relationship to Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, The: A Brief History (2004-09-22). — Baha'i history in Iran and America; relationship with Christian missionaries in Iran and Christian c...
- Moojan Momen. Bahá'í Faith and Traditional Societies, The: Exploring Universes of Discourse (1987). — How misunderstandings can arise between pioneers and the cultures they've moved to; traditional vs. ...
- Hutan Hejazi Martinez. Bahá'ísm: History, Transfiguration, Doxa (2010-05). — An outsider's view of the role of ideologies in a postmodern era, focusing on Baha'i history, conver...
- Juan Cole. Conversion: to Bábí and Bahá'í Faiths (1993). — Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
- Susan Maneck. Conversion Movements within Hindu Village Culture (1997). — Hindu, Christian, and Baha'i conversion patterns in India.
- Susan Maneck. Conversion of Religious Minorities to the Bahá'í Faith in Iran: Some Preliminary Observations (1990). — Conversion patterns of Zoroastrians and Jews in the period 1877-1921.
- Foad Katirai. "Conversion of Religious Minorities to the Bahá'í Faith in Iran," by Susan Stiles Maneck: Commentary (1992).
- Ahang Rabbani. Conversion of the Great-Uncle of the Báb, The (1999 Spring). — The history of Haji Mirza Sayyid Muhammad (1798-1876), maternal uncle of the Bab.
- Peter Ashelman. Conversion, Transformation, and Sacrifice in the Revelation of The Bab (2001-09). — Hermeneutics in early Babi/Baha'i history and its relationship to conversion, and the historical evo...
- Linda S. Covey. Diné Becoming Baha'i: Through the Lens of Ancient Prophecies (2011-05). — Some Diné (Navajo) convert to the Baha'i Faith because it fulfills their ancient prophecies, its in...
- Encyclopaedia Iranica. Arjen Bolhuis, comp. Encyclopaedia Iranica: Selected articles related to Persian culture, religion, philosophy and history (1982-2023). — Sorted, categorized collection of links to over 170 articles.
- Universal House of Justice. Enrollments and limited growth of the Bahá'í community (2002-08-22). — The lack of significant numerical growth in certain Western Baha'i communities is related to the pre...
- Shoghi Effendi and Universal House of Justice Research Department of the Universal House of Justice, comp. Entry by Troops, Promoting (2000).
- Universal House of Justice. Falta de crecimiento y el cambio de cultura, La (2002-08-22).
- Boris Handal. Finding the Lamp: My Bahá'í Experience (2012). — A personal adventure of faith, influenced by a background where faith and reason talked to each othe...
- Juan Cole, ed. From Iran East and West (1984). — Essays on Baha'i history in the Middle East, the United States, and India.
- Moshe Sharon. Jewish Conversion to the Bahá'í Faith (2011). — On the conversion of Jews in Iran, where they were among the early converts to the new religion, fir...
- Mehrdad Amanat. Judeo-Persian Communities of Iran in the Qajar Period: Conversion to the Bahá'í Faith (2009). — Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
- Bahá'u'lláh and Abdu'l-Bahá et al. Helen Bassett Hornby, comp. Lights of Guidance: A Bahá'í Reference File (1988). — The classic Baha'i reference book. This is its first online edition.
- Archie Bell. Meeting a Prophet (1915). — Book chapter containing three interviews with 'Abdu'l-Baha at the Sea of Galilee.
- Peter Smith. Membership, Joining and Leaving Religious Movements and Organizations (2020). — Reflections from the perspective of sociology of religion on belonging, joining, and leaving a faith...
- Universal House of Justice. Geoffrey W. Marks, comp. Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-1986: Third Epoch of the Formative Age (1996).
- Amanah Nurish. Meta-Narrative of Peasant Religious Conversion, The: A Case Study of the Baha'i Community In Thailand (2015). — A study of why the peasant peoples of Yasothon, Thailand have turned to the Baha'i Faith instead of ...
- Linda S. Covey. Navajo Tradition, The: Transition to the Bahá'í Faith (2010). — Examines three reasons behind the conversion of some Navajo to Baha'i in the early 1960s: fulfillmen...
- Maneckji Nuserwanji Dhalla. Gool Sohrab H. J. Rustomji, trans. Navjote of a Converted Zoroastrian Bahai, The: (Chapter 68) (1975). — Overview of the Faith, and the author's interactions with Baha'is in the early 1900s. (Navjote is th...
- Linda S. Covey. Necessary History, A: Teaching On and Off The Reservations (2016). — On the early Baha’i literature directed toward Native Americans; history of Baha’i conversion ac...
- Mary Boyce. Persian Stronghold of Zoroastrianism, A (1977). — Brief mention of Baha'i converts to Zoroastrianism in Yazd.
- Robert McClelland. Promoting Entry by Troops: Study Guide (1994-01). — Study guide for the statement by the House and their compilation "Promoting Entry by Troops."
- Universal House of Justice. Proselytizing, Development, and the Covenant (1996). — Teaching vs. proselytization; applying Baha'i social teachings without becoming ensnared in prevaili...
- Michael Karlberg. Pursuit of Social Justice, The (2022-08-03). — An interdisciplinary examination of prevailing conceptions of human nature, power, social organizati...
- Haji Mirza Siyyid Ali Muhammad. Denis MacEoin, trans. Questions of Haji Mirza Siyyid Ali Muhammad occasioning the Revelation of the Kitab-i-Iqan (1997-06). — Translation of the questions submitted to Baha'u'llah by Haji Mirza Siyyid Muhammad, the maternal un...
- Naghme Naseri Morlock. Religious Persecution and Oppression: A Study of Iranian Baha'ís' Strategies of Survival (2021). — Research based on extensive interviews exploring three ways that members of the Baha'i community res...
- Bahá'u'lláh. Juan Cole, trans. Tablet to Mirza Abu'l-Fadl Concerning the Questions of Manakji Limji Hataria: Baha'u'llah on Hinduism and Zoroastrianism (1995). — Introduction to, article about, and translation of the Tablet to Maneckji.
- Bahá'u'lláh. Nosratollah Mohammad-Hosseini, trans. Tablet to Rada'r-Rúh (1986). — Raḍa’r-Rúḥ, a believer from Mashad, received this tablet shortly after Baha'u'llah arrived in...
- Graeme Were. Thinking Through Images: Kastom and the Coming of the Baha'is to Northern New Ireland, Papua New Guinea (2005). — Anthropological study on the Baha'i Faith in the Nalik area of New Ireland, New Guinea, especially t...
- Tova Makhani-Belkin. 'This Is a Progression, Not Conversion': Narratives of First-Generation Bahá'ís (2023). — Unlike personal transformation experiences in Christianity, religious conversion to the Baha'i Faith...
- Juan Cole. Wittgensteinian Language-Games in an Indo-Persian Dialogue on the World Religions (2015 Fall). — Reflections on Baha'u'llah's theology of previous religions and Ludwig Wittgenstein’s concept of "...
- Miriam Dixson. Women and Religious Change: A case study in the colonial migrant experience (2000). — The story of Margaret Dixson, and one woman's growth from Anglicanism, via numerology and astrology,...
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