- 2 March 2013 Letter from the Universal House of Justice to the Bahá'ís of Iran: Study, Ehsan Bayat, comp. (2024) Study guide to the letter sent to all NSAs on avoiding partisan politics: Bahá'ís can contribute to global civilization-building through the community's own growth, non-political involvement in society, and practicing the oneness of humanity.
- Additional Tablets, Extracts and Talks, by Abdu'l-Bahá. Bahá'í World Centre, trans. (2018/2024) 209 selections, last updated August 2024.
- Advancing Toward the Equality of Women and Men, by Institute for Studies in Global Prosperity. (2009-12-08) Issues that lie at the heart of the struggle for the equality of women and men, via the Institute’s efforts to generate systematic learning and gain new insights, in collaboration with others. [Link to PDF, offsite.]
- Ante Litteram Critique of Orientalism, An: The Case of Abu'l-Fadá'il-i-Gulpáyigání and E.G. Browne, by Mina Yazdani, Omid Ghaemmaghami. (2023) Gulpaygani’s analysis of Orientalism as presented in his book Kashfu'l-Ghitá', which focused on the Cambridge scholar E.G. Browne and how his worldview prefigured that of Edward Said; colonial power relations. Link to article (offsite).
- Bahá'ísm, the religion of brotherhood and its place in the evolution of creeds, by Francis Henry Skrine. (1912) An outsider's sympathetic portrayal of the Bahá'í history and teachings, written with "express approval" of Abdu'l-Bahá.
- Creating Intimacy: In the Community and With the Seeker, by Phyllis K. Peterson. (1998) On how intimacy in the Bahá'í community can be created, using Bahá’í scriptures as guideline. We hunger for intimacy, which is a prerequisite for friendship and a key principle in teaching. Cases drawn from experiences of people who feel psychically hurt.
- Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Nine Year Plan, by Universal House of Justice. (2022-11-01) Matters relating to the Nine Year Plan (2022-2031), ethnic and cultural diversity, humanity's crisis of identity, prejudice, economic injustice, and Africa.
- Fact and Fiction: Interrelationships between History and Imagination, by Bahíyyih Nakhjavání. (2000) On the tension between "fact" and "fiction," between objective history and our relative and subjective stories, between art as the representation of reality and faith based on the Word of God. We inherited a responsibility to resolve this tension.
- Hidden Gifts: Finding Blessings in the Struggles of Life, by Brian Kurzius. (2007) Compilation of Bahá'í texts on the purpose of problems and tests in our lives.
- "In the Beginning Was the Word": Apocalypse and the Education of the Soul, by Ross Woodman. (1993) Hidden meanings in scripture and the soul are metaphorically identified with the huris, or brides. The bridegroom, Bahá'ulláh, enters union as the marriage of the Manifestation with the Maid of Heaven, who releases the Logos and the newly created soul.
- Love, Power, and Justice, by William S. Hatcher. (1999) The pursuit and abuse of power are moral choices for which there is no moral justification.
- Materialism Wearing Away at Our Kids, by Ted Slavin. (2012-02-11) The materialism of modern society and media is distracting many of our children. Adults must be aware that they are key role models for their kids.
- Overcoming Barriers to Unity: An Essay on Group Harmony, by Steven E. Ellis. (1996) Different perspectives on unity and disunity; red flags of disunity including anger, advising, perfectionism, excessive speech; group decision-making; and the role of the institutions. Includes compilation on the subject of unity.
- Path to God, The: 1956, by Dorothy Baker. (1956) Some elements for spiritual success: power through prayer and nine benefits of prayer, victorious living, and immortality.
- Power and the Bahá'í community, by Moojan Momen. (2018) 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.
- Revelation and Social Reality: Learning to Translate What Is Written into Reality, by Paul Lample. (2009) The nature of change in social reality, Bahá’í understanding and practice, learning and growth, participating in the advancement of society, and problems of knowledge and power.
- Theses on Modernity and the Bahá'í Faith, by Mikhail Sergeev. (2015) On how new religious movements respond to modernity; cycles of religion; project of modernity; culture vs. civilization; the Bahá'í extension of modernity; Bahá'í departure from modernity; separation of religion and state.
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