1. 2024-08-23. "I woke up and knew, spiritually, I have just accepted the faith": Agency and Dream Ethnography in the Bahá'í Faith. Tova Makhani-Belkin. — Analysis of first-generation Baha'is' dreams and visions as confirming their religious conversion, e...
2. 2023. 'This Is a Progression, Not Conversion': Narratives of First-Generation Bahá'ís. Tova Makhani-Belkin. — Unlike personal transformation experiences in Christianity, religious conversion to the Baha'i Faith...
3. 2022-08-03. Pursuit of Social Justice, The. Michael Karlberg. — An interdisciplinary examination of prevailing conceptions of human nature, power, social organizati...
4. 2021. Religious Persecution and Oppression: A Study of Iranian Baha'ís' Strategies of Survival. Naghme Naseri Morlock. — Research based on extensive interviews exploring three ways that members of the Baha'i community res...
5. 2020. Membership, Joining and Leaving Religious Movements and Organizations. Peter Smith. — Reflections from the perspective of sociology of religion on belonging, joining, and leaving a faith...
6. 2016. Necessary History, A: Teaching On and Off The Reservations. Linda S. Covey. — On the early Baha’i literature directed toward Native Americans; history of Baha’i conversion ac...
7. 2015 Fall. Wittgensteinian Language-Games in an Indo-Persian Dialogue on the World Religions. Juan Cole. — Reflections on Baha'u'llah's theology of previous religions and Ludwig Wittgenstein’s concept of "...
8. 2015. Meta-Narrative of Peasant Religious Conversion, The: A Case Study of the Baha'i Community In Thailand. Amanah Nurish. — A study of why the peasant peoples of Yasothon, Thailand have turned to the Baha'i Faith instead of ...
9. 2012-01. Dreams of the Spirit. Mehrnoush Norozi. — Short account of a new believer's spiritual journey of discovering the Faith through a series of dre...
10. 2012. Finding the Lamp: My Bahá'í Experience. Boris Handal. — A personal adventure of faith, influenced by a background where faith and reason talked to each othe...
11. 2011-05. Diné Becoming Baha'i: Through the Lens of Ancient Prophecies. Linda S. Covey. — Some Diné (Navajo) convert to the Baha'i Faith because it fulfills their ancient prophecies, its in...
12. 2011. Jewish Conversion to the Bahá'í Faith. Moshe Sharon. — On the conversion of Jews in Iran, where they were among the early converts to the new religion, fir...
13. 2010-05. Bahá'ísm: History, Transfiguration, Doxa. Hutan Hejazi Martinez. — An outsider's view of the role of ideologies in a postmodern era, focusing on Baha'i history, conver...
14. 2010. Navajo Tradition, The: Transition to the Bahá'í Faith. Linda S. Covey. — Examines three reasons behind the conversion of some Navajo to Baha'i in the early 1960s: fulfillmen...
15. 2009. Judeo-Persian Communities of Iran in the Qajar Period: Conversion to the Bahá'í Faith. Mehrdad Amanat. — Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
16. 2005. Thinking Through Images: Kastom and the Coming of the Baha'is to Northern New Ireland, Papua New Guinea. Graeme Were. — Anthropological study on the Baha'i Faith in the Nalik area of New Ireland, New Guinea, especially t...
17. 2004-09-22. Bahá'í Faith and Its Relationship to Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, The: A Brief History. Adam Berry. — Baha'i history in Iran and America; relationship with Christian missionaries in Iran and Christian c...
18. 2002-08-22. Falta de crecimiento y el cambio de cultura, La. Universal House of Justice.
19. 2002-08-22. Enrollments and limited growth of the Bahá'í community. Universal House of Justice. — The lack of significant numerical growth in certain Western Baha'i communities is related to the pre...
20. 2001-09. Conversion, Transformation, and Sacrifice in the Revelation of The Bab. Peter Ashelman. — Hermeneutics in early Babi/Baha'i history and its relationship to conversion, and the historical evo...
21. 2001-02. Bahá'í Faith: Prophecy and Conversion. Brian J. Mistler. — Results of a field study of Baha'is in the United States and Australia which demonstrate that family...
22. 2000. Entry by Troops, Promoting. Shoghi Effendi, Universal House of Justice, Universal House of Justice, Research Department, comp. .
23. 2000. Women and Religious Change: A case study in the colonial migrant experience. Miriam Dixson. — The story of Margaret Dixson, and one woman's growth from Anglicanism, via numerology and astrology,...
24. 1999 Spring. Conversion of the Great-Uncle of the Báb, The. Ahang Rabbani. — The history of Haji Mirza Sayyid Muhammad (1798-1876), maternal uncle of the Bab.
25. 1997-06. Questions of Haji Mirza Siyyid Ali Muhammad occasioning the Revelation of the Kitab-i-Iqan. Haji Mirza Siyyid Ali Muhammad, Denis MacEoin, trans. . — Translation of the questions submitted to Baha'u'llah by Haji Mirza Siyyid Muhammad, the maternal un...
26. 1997. Conversion Movements within Hindu Village Culture. Susan Maneck. — Hindu, Christian, and Baha'i conversion patterns in India.
27. 1996. Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-1986: Third Epoch of the Formative Age. Universal House of Justice, Geoffrey W. Marks, comp. .
28. 1996. Proselytizing, Development, and the Covenant. Universal House of Justice. — Teaching vs. proselytization; applying Baha'i social teachings without becoming ensnared in prevaili...
29. 1995. Tablet to Mirza Abu'l-Fadl Concerning the Questions of Manakji Limji Hataria: Baha'u'llah on Hinduism and Zoroastrianism. Bahá'u'lláh, Juan Cole, trans. . — Introduction to, article about, and translation of the Tablet to Maneckji.
30. 1994-01. Promoting Entry by Troops: Study Guide. Robert McClelland. — Study guide for the statement by the House and their compilation "Promoting Entry by Troops."
31. 1993. Conversion: to Bábí and Bahá'í Faiths. Juan Cole. — Brief excerpt, with link to article offsite.
32. 1992. "Conversion of Religious Minorities to the Bahá'í Faith in Iran," by Susan Stiles Maneck: Commentary. Foad Katirai.
33. 1990. Conversion of Religious Minorities to the Bahá'í Faith in Iran: Some Preliminary Observations. Susan Maneck (published as Susan Stiles Maneck). — Conversion patterns of Zoroastrians and Jews in the period 1877-1921.
34. 1988. Lights of Guidance: A Bahá'í Reference File. Bahá'u'lláh, Abdu'l-Bahá, Shoghi Effendi, Universal House of Justice, Helen Bassett Hornby, comp. . — The classic Baha'i reference book. This is its first online edition.
35. 1987. Bahá'í Faith and Traditional Societies, The: Exploring Universes of Discourse. Moojan Momen. — How misunderstandings can arise between pioneers and the cultures they've moved to; traditional vs. ...
36. 1986. Tablet to Rada'r-Rúh. Bahá'u'lláh, Nosratollah Mohammad-Hosseini, trans. . — Raḍa’r-Rúḥ, a believer from Mashad, received this tablet shortly after Baha'u'llah arrived in...
37. 1984. From Iran East and West. Juan Cole, ed, Moojan Momen, ed. — Essays on Baha'i history in the Middle East, the United States, and India.
38. 1982-2023. Encyclopaedia Iranica: Selected articles related to Persian culture, religion, philosophy and history. Encyclopaedia Iranica. — Sorted, categorized collection of links to over 170 articles.
39. 1977. Persian Stronghold of Zoroastrianism, A. Mary Boyce. — Brief mention of Baha'i converts to Zoroastrianism in Yazd.
40. 1975. Navjote of a Converted Zoroastrian Bahai, The. Maneckji Nuserwanji Dhalla, Gool Sohrab H. J. Rustomji, trans, Behram Sohrab H. J. Rustomji, trans. . — Overview of the Faith, and the author's interactions with Baha'is in the early 1900s. (Navjote is th...
41. 1915. Meeting a Prophet. Archie Bell. — Book chapter containing three interviews with 'Abdu'l-Baha at the Sea of Galilee.

1. 1868-05-00 — Baha'u'llah sent Nabil-i-A`zam Zarandi to Cairo to enquire after Haji Mirza Haydar-`Ali. He was inst...
2. 1880-00-00 — The first Zoroastrians became Baha'is, in Persia. [SBBH2:67; RoB3p268] For information on these c...
3. 1886-00-02 — Birth of Narayanrao Rangnath Vakil, the first Hindu to become a Baha'i in Surat, Gujarat, India.
4. 1890-00-04 — Ibrahim George Kheiralla (Khayru'llah) became a Baha'i in Cairo under the tutelage of `Abdu'l-Karim-...
5. 1890-00-07 — A number of people of the Jewish, Zoroastrian and Buddhist Faiths became Baha'is. [BBR248–9; GPB19...
6. 1936-12-31 — Khusraw Biman (Thabit) passed away in Bombay at the age of 103 or 104. [Imm:56] He is the first Z...

1. 1942-00-00 — Four others joined the Faith in Edmonton in 1942. [Edmonton Baha'i History]
2. 1942-09-00 — Ina Trimble, a widow, was the first Edmonton resident to become a Baha'i (Edmonton Baha'i Community ...
3. 1961-05-00 — Ron Parsons became a Baha'i some time before July in 1961. [CBN No 138 July 1961 p3] At the time...

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