1. n.d.. Importance of and Guidance on Translating the Bahá'í Writings into Indigenous and Other Languages. Universal House of Justice, Research Department, comp. — Compilation of one passage from Abdu'l-Baha and fourteen excerpts from letters written by or on beha...
2. 2025-04-21. Global Community, A. Bahá'í World. — The global Baha’i community advances unity, social transformation, and spiritual principles throug...
3. 2025-03-10. Towards A European Union Anti-Racism Strategy. Bahá'í International Community. — The BIC Brussels Office calls for a transformative EU anti-racism strategy, emphasizing human unity,...
4. 2025. Bahá'í Work as Worship, Prayer as Practice: Chapter 15. Deborah Clark Vance. — Religion is logical and progressive; it moves humanity closer to a unified world; human reality is o...
5. 2024-12. Translating the Bahá'í Writings into Languages Other Than English. Craig L. Volker, Mary Goebel Noguchi. — Challenges in translation, including questions about spelling, terminology, politeness strategies em...
6. 2024-12. El archivo de música mapuche de la Radio Bahá'í: Diagnóstico, inventario, desafíos y reflexiones. José Velásquez Arce, Katherine Zamora Caro, Alex Calfuqueo Calfucura, Leonardo Díaz-Collao. — On the process of identification, diagnosis and inventory of the archive of Radio Baha'i; the work o...
7. 2024-03. Even as the Waves of One Sea: Bahá'í Consultation's Implicit Cultural Support for the Clash of Differing Opinions. Whitney White Kazemipour. — A letter from Shoghi Effendi introduces some cultural dynamics which underlie Baha'i consultation; d...
8. 2024. Religious Perspectives on the Narratives of America: The Search for Just, Honest, Inclusive and Forward-looking Tellings. Audrey C. Price, ed, Selvi Adaikkalam Zabihi, ed. — Eleven essays by contributors from different communities, exploring how religious insights can creat...
9. 2023-12. Singular Room, A: An Exploration of Bahá'í Houses of Worship. Sama Shodjai. — Overview of the design principles followed in building the Baha'i temples, and the intricacies and c...
10. 2023-01-17. Crisis of Identity, The. Shahrzad Sabet. — Exploring how the Baha’i principle of the oneness of humanity can resolve the seemingly intractabl...
11. 2023-01-08. Rising to the Challenge of Reconciliation. Roshan Danesh, Douglas White III. — Analyzing the legacy of colonialism and racism in Canada and examining the profound, multifaceted pr...
12. 2023. From Outsider to Outsider: A Study of Iranian Bahá'ís' Identity in Iran and the United States. Naghme Naseri Morlock. — The denial of a national identity of Baha'is in Iran; their experiences in the U.S.; cultural differ...
13. 2022-11-01. Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Nine Year Plan. Universal House of Justice. — Matters relating to the Nine Year Plan (2022-2031), ethnic and cultural diversity, humanity's crisis...
14. 2022. Architectures of Thinking, The. Jordi Vallverdu Segura, Josuke Nakano. — Sacred architectures play a role in shaping cognition — which results from the relationships betw...
15. 2022. Qur'anic Kerygma: Epic, Apocalypse, and Typological Figuration. Todd Lawson. — Article contains no mention of the Babi or Baha'i Faiths, but includes themes of relevance to Baha'i...
16. 2021-02. Reflections of Our Values: Digital Technologies and a Just Transition. Bahá'í International Community. — A statement to the 59th session of the Commission for Social Development on technological innovation...
17. 2020-11. Creating an Inclusive Narrative. Australian Bahá'í Community. — Culmination of a series of nationwide round tables, conveying the vision of Australians to foster a ...
18. 2020-09. Spatial Strategies for Racial Unity. June Manning Thomas. — On the nature and approaches of Baha’i educational programs and community building efforts which s...
19. 2020. Africanity, Womanism, and Constructive Resilience: Some Reflections. Layli Maparyan. — The meanings of the metaphor "pupil of the eye;" experiences of growing up African-American in the W...
20. 2019-06-04. Permissibility of Chinese New Year Celebrations and Cultural Prostrations. Universal House of Justice. — Permissibility of observing Chinese New Year; prostrating is permissible for cultures in which prost...
21. 2019. 'Abdu'l-Bahá's Prophecy. Christopher Buck, Kevin Locke. — Slide-show overview of ‘Abdu’l-Baha's prophecy "these Indians will enlighten the whole world."
22. 2016-03-17. Demographics of the United States National Spiritual Assembly. Archives Office of the United States Bahá'í National Center. — Percentage of women, African-Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Latino Americans serv...
23. 2016. Building Intercultural Community: Insights from Indigenous Bahá'í History. Chelsea Horton. — Bridging Baha'i communities with Indigenous populations in Canada and the United States was not easy...
24. 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...
25. 2014/2020/2024. List of Articles by Christopher Buck on BahaiTeachings.org. Christopher Buck. — List of online essays and articles by Christopher Buck since 2014.
26. 2014-2020. Indigenous Messengers of God. Christopher Buck, Kevin Locke. — 68 essays on Native American theology and history from the perspective of Baha'i teachings.
27. 2013. Reason and the Bahá'í Writings. Ian Kluge. — The Baha'i Faith has much to say on the importance of reason, logic, and a "rational God," but the m...
28. 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...
29. 2011. Native American Vision and the Teachings of 'Abdu'l-Baha. Paula Bidwell. — Presentation addressing issues of concern to Native Americans, cast in the light of statements of Ab...
30. 2011. Duty of Kindness and Sympathy Towards Strangers, The. Julio Savi. — Integrating immigrants into the culture of their new country is becoming a focus in some Western sta...
31. 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...
32. 2010. De la Córdoba Mora a los Bahá'ís de Irán. Boris Handal. — Contrast between the contemporary Iranian Baha'i community and the treatment of religious minorities...
33. 2009. Identidad y Paz. Quentin Farrand. — Estimular la apreciación de la diversidad de caracteres, talentos, y personalidades que encontramos...
34. 2008 Fall. New Skin For An Old Drum, A: Changing Contexts of Yukon Aboriginal Bahá'í Storytelling. Lynn Echevarria-Howe (published as Lynn Echevarria). — On the construction of the religious self through the storytelling processes of Yukon Aboriginal Bah...
35. 2008. Individual Bahá'í Perspective on Spiritual Aspects of Cultural Diversity and Sustainable Development: Towards a Second Enlightenment. Chris Jones Kavelin. — This paper discusses the spiritual value of cultural diversity and explores how such reflection impa...
36. 2007-10. Interreligious and Intercultural Cooperation. Bahá'í International Community. — Statement to the United Nations on best practices and strategies for interreligious and intercultura...
37. 2007-09-08. From Moorish Cordova to the Bahá'ís of Iran: Islamic Tolerance and Intolerance. Boris Handal. — Though Baha'is are persecuted in Iran, Muhammad taught understanding and respect towards religious m...
38. 2007. Conversive Turn in Bahá'í Scripture, The: An Intersubjective Communications Model for Bridging Global Diversity. Susan Berry Brill de Ramirez. — Communications which manifest equality of participants bring diverse persons and elements of the wor...
39. 2007. Bushido (Chivalry) and the Traditional Japanese Moral Education. Nozomu Sonda. — Japanese virtues explained by Nitobe in 1900 in comparison with the Baha'i perspective on moral educ...
40. 2007. Not Just for Consumers: An Argument for Depicting Diverse Beliefs on U.S. Television. Deborah Clark Vance. — Globally, with few exceptions, television is a conduit for reaffirming hegemonic beliefs. How can ...
41. 2006-07. Bioprospecting and Indigenous Knowledge in Australia: Implications of Valuing Indigenous Spiritual Knowledge. John Hunter, Chris Jones. — Co-authored/painted paper by Aboriginal and 'Western' authors primarily focusing on spiritual issues...
42. 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...
43. 2004. Alain Locke and Cultural Pluralism. Christopher Buck. — The worldview of the African American thinker Alain Locke as a Baha'i, his secular perspective as a ...
44. 2004. La Cultura Hispano Árabe en Latino América. Boris Handal. — The influence of the Hispano-Arab culture in Latin American history, from a linguistic point of view...
45. 2003. Tattoos, Permissibility of. Universal House of Justice.
46. 2003. Bahá'í: Religion and Diet. Paul Fieldhouse. — Short overview of fasting, feast, and diet.
47. 2002/2003 Winter. Same Yet Different, The: Creating Unity Among the Diverse Members of the Bahá'í Faith. Deborah Clark Vance. — A study of the process by which people form a unified community from diverse cultures based on inter...
48. 2002-08. Us and Them: Understanding Cultural Identity. Deborah Clark Vance. — Identity formation and cultural identities are an important part of who we are, but we need to be aw...
49. 2002-05. Same Yet Different, The: Bahá'í Perspectives on Achieving Unity out of Difference. Deborah Clark Vance. — Based on in-depth interviews with members of the Baha’i Faith [in the USA] to uncover a descriptio...
50. 2002. Ireland's Multi-Ethnic Immigration Challenge: An Irish Bahá'í View. Eamonn Moane. — After centuries of population loss, Ireland’s economic success in the 1990s led to a surge of imm...
51. 2001. Cultural Reconciliation in Canada - questions. Universal House of Justice. — Reply from the House of Justice to a request for a reexamination of the assumptions on which its let...
52. 2001. Human Rights and Multiculturalism. Kiser Barnes. — The concept of human rights must be enriched by spiritual principles. They rest on universal princip...
53. 2001. Bahá'í-Inspired Perspectives on Human Rights. Tahirih Tahririha-Danesh, ed. — Articles by Kiser Barnes, Greg Duly, Cheshmak Farhoumand-Sims, Graham Hassall, Darren Hedley, Nazila...
54. 2000-06. Cultural Reconciliation in Canada. Universal House of Justice. — The Universal House of Justice suggests to the National Spiritual Assembly of Canada that their effo...
55. 2000. Native Conversion, Native Identity: An oral history of the Bahá'í faith among First Nations people in the southern central Yukon Territory, Canada. Carolyn Patterson Sawin. — Factors influencing religious conversion among Yukon Baha'is; correlation between participation in t...
56. 2000. Values Education in Bahá'í Schools. Jennifer Chapa, Rhett Diessner. — A general introduction to a Bahá'í view of the purpose of education, along with a review of comm...
57. 2000. Cultural Diversity in the Age of Maturity. Bahá'u'lláh, Abdu'l-Bahá, Shoghi Effendi, Universal House of Justice, Universal House of Justice, Research Department, comp. .
58. 1999-09. Sacred Baha'i Architecture. Benjamin Leiker. — Symbolism and history of Baha'i temples.
59. 1999-02. Continuities and Discontinuities in Islamic Perspectives on Cultural Diversity. Sulayman S. Nyang. — Contains only brief mention of Baha'is, but discusses the Iranian Revolution and related topics.
60. 1998-12. African Culture, Traditional, Aspects of. Universal House of Justice, Universal House of Justice, Research Department, comp. . — Challenges and opportunities in the African continent; eliminating prejudices; dance and music; alco...
61. 1998-07. Bahá'í Communities in the Asia-Pacific: Performing Common Theology and Cultural Diversity on a 'Spiritual Axis'. Graham Hassall, William Barnes. — The idea of a ‘spiritual axis' between the Baha'is of the northern and southern regions of the Asi...
62. 1998-06. Unity in Diversity: Orientations and Strategies for Building a Harmonious Multicultural Society. Michael Harris Bond. — Insights from the discipline of psychology can be used to design societies compatible with the exige...
63. 1998-02-10. Pioneering, Language, Arts, Example of 'Abdu'l-Bahá. Universal House of Justice. — Pioneering; Serving parents; Serving where need is; Gardens; International Auxiliary Language; Arabi...
64. 1998. Creating Intimacy: In the Community and With the Seeker. Phyllis K. Peterson. — On how intimacy in the Baha'i community can be created, using Baha’i scriptures as guideline. We h...
65. 1996-06. Sustainable Communities in an Integrating World. Bahá'í International Community. — Concept paper prepared for the Second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) he...
66. 1996-02. Persian-speaking Believers in Anglophone Communities. Universal House of Justice. — Some Persian expatriates feel deprived of participation in Baha'i gatherings because of an inability...
67. 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...
68. 1996. Universality of the Laws of the Kitáb-i-Aqdas, The. Bijan Samali. — The laws of the Aqdas focus on the individual; are applicable to everyone; facilitate the realisatio...
69. 1995. Whanau (extended family) Structures as an Innovative Intervention into Maori Educational and Schooling Crises. Graham Hingangaroa Smith. — The development of an innovative response by the indigenous Maori people of New Zealand to the dual ...
70. 1995. Return of the Dreamtime. Pym Trueman. — Brief history of Christianity and missionary work in Samoa and Australia, and how native Samoan cust...
71. 1994-04. Unity in Diversity: Acceptance and Integration in an Era of Intolerance and Fragmentation. Roxanne Lalonde. — Short excerpt from thesis, edited as a stand-alone article.
72. 1994 Fall. Houses as Perfect as Is Possible. Duane L. Herrmann. — A survey of the evolution in design of the Baha'i Houses of Worship around the world through the twe...
73. 1993(?)/2015. Communal Harmony: India's Greatest Challenge. National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of India. — A formal statement from the NSA of the Baha'is of India on the need to overcome religious, linguisti...
74. 1991. Vision of Race Unity: America's Most Challenging Issue. National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States. — A formal statement from the US NSA on "the most challenging issue confronting America."
75. 1990. Hinduism and the Bahá'í Faith. Moojan Momen. — An attempt to explore the relationship between Hinduism and the Baha'i Faith and to explain the Baha...
76. 1989-10-06. Special Report on Baha'i Burial vs. Maori Custom. National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of New Zealand. — Special report about reconciling Baha'i burial laws with local maori customs where they conflict; in...
77. 1989. A Leaf of Honey and the Proverbs of the Rainforest, by Joseph Shepperd: Review. Lin Poyer.
78. 1989. Learning from History. Moojan Momen. — The challenges caused by the influx of Third World villagers into the Baha’i world community. The ...
79. 1989. Language and Worldview. Alvino E. Fantini. — Languages are paradigms of a view of the world. Knowledge of more than one language holds promise fo...
80. 1988. Education and Moral Development in Children. Susan Clay Stoddart. — We are caught between the imperative to function as a world culture and a belief that we need to mai...
81. 1988. Protection of Diversity in the World Order of Baha'u'llah, The. Bahá'í World Centre Office of Public Information. — Statement dated December 29, 1985, released by the Baha'i International Community's Office of Public...
82. 1987. Exploring Universes of Discourse: The Meeting of the Bahá'í Faith and Traditional Society. Moojan Momen. — To communicate, people need to share not just a common language; there must also be a common framewo...
83. 1987. Dancing in the Haziratu'l-Quds. Universal House of Justice. — Recreational dancing in a temple is not appropriate, but cultural and devotional dancing is acceptab...
84. 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. ...
85. 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...
86. 1983. Applications of Positive Psychotherapy for Marriage and Family Therapy. Nossrat Peseschkian. — To understand observed behaviour, we need to consider transcultural conditions as well as those in t...
87. 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.
88. 1969. Message to the Indian and Eskimo Bahá'ís of the Western Hemisphere. Rúhíyyih Khánum. — Letter to Native American and Inuit believers, about the assurance given in the Baha'i Writings that...
89. 1968. Becoming Your True Self. Daniel C. Jordan. — The nature of human potential, and how the Baha'i Faith can guide the process of spiritual transform...
90. 1919. Simla, a Tale of Love. Stanwood Cobb. — A Hindu legend retold in poetic form: a story of love and devotion that reconciles flesh and spirit,...

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