1. 2024-11-19. Geographies of Transimperial Religion: The Transformation of Religious Space in a World of Empires. Nile Green. Examining how religions changed as they moved across different empires; how new religious spaces, practices, and networks developed, shaping modern global faiths. (Link to article, offsite.) Articles.
2. 2023. Avalonian Bahaism: Esotericism, Orientalism, and the Search for Direction in Early Twentieth Century Britain. Dell J. Rose. The thought of British religious teacher Wellesley Tudor Pole and his advocacy of the Bahá'í Faith as compatible with various mystic ideologies at the centre of a worldwide spiritual revival; esotericists around Glastonbury and the Chalice Well Trust. Articles.
3. 2018. Through the Eyes of Margaret Cousins: Irish and Indian Suffragette. Keith Munro. Biography of the co-founder of the Irish Women's Franchise League, a theosophist, who met both Martha Root and Shoghi Effendi. Biographies.
4. 2017. Bahá'í Faith and the Spiritualists, The: A Bibliographic Survey. Jan T. Jasion, comp. Citations from the private database of the International Association for the Preservation of Spiritualist and Occult Periodicals. Bibliographies.
5. 2015. Last Words of Jesus, The: What Were They and What Did They Mean?. Peter Terry. The words of Christ according to the gospels of Mark and Matthew in Syriac and Greek; comparisons of the Greek, Syriac, Aramaic and Hebrew editions of Psalm 21/22; paper ends with an interpretation by Abdu'l-Bahá. Articles-unpublished.
6. 2015. Archeology of the Kingdom of God, The. Jean-Marc Lepain, Peter Terry, trans. . Analysis of the spiritual worlds as depicted in philosophical and religious texts, from ancient the Greek to Jewish, Christian and Muslim thought, contrasted with the theosophy, metaphysics, anthropology, and hermeneutics of Bahá'u'lláh and 'Abdu'l-Bahá. Books.
7. 2014. Celtic Dimension of Pre-first World War Religious Discourse in Britain, The: Wellesley Tudor Pole and the Glastonbury Phenomenon. Brendan McNamara. On the Celtic revival, a new religious movement outside of mainstream Christianity in early 20th century Britain; pre-Christian culture in Ireland; the holy grail; religious reformers from Asia. Includes passing mentions of Abdu'l-Bahá and the Faith. Articles.
8. 2006. L'implantation de la foi baha'ie en France: et impact de la venue de Abdu'l Bahá à Paris au début du XXème siècle (The establishment of the Bahá'í Faith in France and the impact of the arrival of Abdu'l-Bahá in Paris at the beginning of the 20th century). Natalia Behnam. French society at the end of the 19th century; Western expansion of the Bahá'í Faith; Abdu'l-Bahá's stays in Paris 1911-1913; religious minorities in France; on meeting Guillaume Apollinaire, Romain Rolland, Auguste Forel, Queen Marie of Romania, et al. Articles-unpublished.
9. 2006. Andalusí Theosophy: A Recontextualization. Vahid Brown. The role of interconfessionalism in the emergence of Islamic and Jewish theosophical movements in 10th- to 13th-century Spain.  Articles.
10. 2002. Mystical Dimensions of the Bahá'í Administrative Order, The. Kavian Sadeghzade Milani. The Bahá'i Administrative Order can be seen as a mystical entity, and there are some parallels between it and Sufism. For Bahá'is the encounter with the Administrative Order is critical to the mystical path. Articles.
11. 1999. Study of the Pen Motif in the Bahá'í Writings, A. Kavian Sadeghzade Milani, Nafeh Fananapazir. Theology and background of the "pen" metaphor — the creative force presented by the Manifestation of God — and the "tablet" — the recipient of the creative force. Also the five realms of existence: Háhút, Láhút, Jabarút, Malakút, and Násút. Articles.
12. 1994-07-06. New Religious Movements, Tolkien, Marriage. Universal House of Justice. Various questions: new religious movements; Indian Letter of the Living; J.R.R. Tolkien; eternality of the marriage bond; illumination of Bahá'u'lláh's tablets. UHJ-letters.
13. 1955. Faiths Men Live By, The. Charles Francis Potter. One-page overview of the Bahá'í Faith's relationship to gnosticism, and its status in America. Excerpts.
14. 1950-10-04. Short Letter on Behalf of Shoghi Effendi on Various Topics. Shoghi Effendi. Brief comments on various subjects: taking verses out of context, love of God, love for all humanity, the nature of evil, evolution, and theosophy. Guardian.
15. 1924. Abdu'l-Bahá. Constance Elizabeth Maud. Chapter on Abdu'l-Bahá and Qurratu'l-Ayn, from a book of biographical studies. Biographies.
16. 1918. 'Abdu'l-Bahá on Divine Philosophy. Abdu'l-Bahá, Elizabeth Fraser Chamberlain, comp. . An early collection of writings and talks of Abdu'l-Bahá. Writings.
17. 1914. Twenty-one Days with Abdu'l-Bahá in the Holy Land. M. R. Shirazi. A lecture delivered at the Lodge of the Karachi Theosophical Society on the 13th June 1914. Pilgrims.

1. 1875-00-05 — Theosophy was established as a religious philosophical movement in New York City by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891). It contained elements of Hinduism and Buddhism and held that the purpose of all the religions was to assist humanity toward perfection and that all religions had a portion of the "truth". It has since split into a number of conflicting ideologies. [ABF9note54, Wikipedia (Blavatskian)]
2. The cordial relations between the Theosophical Society and the Bahá'í Faith helped in the spreading of the Faith in the United States, Europe and in South America.

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