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Presenters and participants reflected on some of the fundamental characteristics of human nature in the light of Baha’i concepts and principles, and made efforts to compare this understanding with both existing assumptions in contemporary society and ideas about human nature emerging in some scientific and specialized discourses.
The conference plenary sessions helped to articulate some of […]
האוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM The Faculty of Humanities Chair in Bahá’í Studies, ANNOUNCE THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON Modern Religions and Religious Movements and the Bábí-Bahá’í Faiths To be convened between Monday, 21st (*) March and Thursday 24th March 2011. This is a preliminary announcement and call for papers concerning the […]
34th ABS Annual Conference
Hyatt Regency Vancouver, August 12-15 2010, Vancouver, BC
Theme Statement and Call for Presentations
Rethinking Human Nature
How can Bahá’í scholarship contribute to the emergence of a new consensus regarding human nature? How we see social reality depends largely on our assumptions, but much contemporary discourse implicitly or explicitly assumes that human nature is self-interested […]
In the last couple of weeks there has been a flurry of activity in respect of climate change. Coming hard on the heels of the Islam Green Initiative (2010-2017) the Baha’i International Community particpated in the UK based Alliance of Religions and Conservation (ARC) at Windsor Castle this month as reported by the Baha’i World News Service.
“Representatives of the […]
The Antipodean Baha’i Studies site has made available an updated bibliography on Babism. Despite being more or less a religion which has come and gone historically it still continues to generate and attrract a great deal of scholalrly interest. The Bibliography originally posted here in 2007 has been substantially expanded and updated. The bibliography now […]
ABS-Japan 17th Annual Conference
Call for Papers
Date: September 19th (Sat.) - 20th(Sun.)
Venue: Tokyo Bahai Center
Theme: Ideal society for the 21st century
The theme of the conference, “Ideal society for the 21st century,” ranges over a large area of study, which we hope allows us to explore the fields of our interests from various points of view.
Possible topics […]
Baha’i Studies Conference, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 24-26 July 2009
The Religious Studies Special Interest Group of the Association of Baha’i Studies will be holding conference on Baha’i Studies at the Baha’i Centre, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, starting 7.00 pm on 24 July and ending 1.00 pm 26 July.
For further information, please contact:
Stephen Lambden - slambden@ucmerced.edu
OR Moojan Momen - moojan@momen.org.uk
Programme:
Lil Abdo, The […]
Opposing Viewpoints is a series of education resource texts designed for college or high school students to engender critical thinking and to prevent opposing viewpoints and multiple perspectives on current issues and affairs. A recent volume, Endangered Oceans has an article on human endangered oceans authored by the Baha’i International Community which is the agency which […]
The Bahá’í Encyclopedia Project achieves a major milestone today, April 9, 2009, with the launching of a website featuring a gradually expanding selection of articles for the study of the Bahá’í Faith:. The articles–covering a range of topics in the categories of history, biography, teachings and laws, administration and institutions–bring together information from a wide […]
The Irfan Colloquia continues its program of conferences in Europe and North America. In May the 88th Colloquium will be held at Bosch Baha’i school, Santa Cruz, California, May 28-31, 2009. The program includes the following presentations: Muin Afnani, A Review of the History and Content of Anti-Bahá’i Publications; Ghasem Bayat, Resurection - Hell & […]
The International Environment Forum, a Baha’i inspired NGO concerned with the environment and sustainable development is combining forces with the Association for Baha’i Studies North America in respective of each organisation’s annual conferences. The joint conference theme is “Environments”. A single registration makes both conferences available to participants. IEF participants can also participate through […]
The Islamic revolution which installed Ayatollah Ruhullah Khomeini in power attains its 30 year anniversary this month. For much of that time the Iranian Baha’i community along with other ethnic and social minorities in that republic have suffered official opprobation, quasi judicial executions, systematic social exclusion and shunning, destruction of cemeteries and holy places, disenfranchisement […]
The National Dragomanov Pedagogic University, Institute of Philosophical Education and Science, Student Association of the Institute of Philosophical Education and Science, Youth Association of Researchers of Religion with the assistance of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Ukraine Invites researchers, teachers, graduate students, and creative students to participate in an International Academic Conference […]
Baharieh Rouhani Ma’ani is developing a name as a writer to watch. Here is the publisher’s description: Women of the Middle East in the 19th century are generally absent from the pages of history. Even their names are not recorded. They have no voice. They are invisible. The women closest to the twin Manifestations, the Báb […]
Women’s and minority rights in Iran must not be overlooked while the world focuses on the country’s nuclear issue. That’s the conclusion of an important new pamphlet from the Foreign Policy Centre being launched on November 25 to coincide with UN International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. In the pamphlet entitled, ‘A […]
In 2004 Necati Alkan completed his PH.D. thesis at the Ruhr Universität Bochum“The Babi and Baha’i Religions in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, 1844-1928″ . This new publication from the academic publisher Isis Press represents the revised print version of this thesis. The thesis is notable for its original use of Ottoman Archive materials. Contents: […]
Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau (July 14, 1816 — October 13, 1882) was a French diplomat, novelist historian and theorist of racial inequality who was one of the earliest Europeans to chronicle the events of Babi history within a few decades of their happening. Gobineau in turn influenced and inspired historians, orientalists and philologists in Europe including […]
Sixth North American Bahá’í Conference on Law: Exploring the Intersections of Religion & Governance: Past, Present, & Future October 9-11, 2008 American University, Washington College of Law 4801 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Room 603, Washington, DC. Under this theme, we will be bringing together a diverse group of speakers and participants, including both Bahá’ís and many […]
The Association for Bahá’í Studies, North America, is pleased to announce that its 33rd annual conference will be held from the 13th to the 16th of August, 2009, in Washington DC, at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. The theme of the conference will be Environments. The teachings of the Bahá’í Faith shed light on the […]
The UK publisher George Ronald have announced two new publications which will be of interest to Bahai scholars and researchers. The first is a study of the Badi (”New”) calendar, Time and the Baha’i Era, a calendar which originated in the Writings of the Bab. This thought-provoking book examines the historical background and symbolic significance of […]
Leading academic publishers EJ Brill have announced the forthcoming publication, The Messiah of Shiraz: Studies in Early and Middle Babism, in the series Iran Studies (edited Ali Gheissari (University of San Diego, CA), Roy P. Mottahedeh (Harvard University), Yann Richard (Sorbonne Nouvelle)) The 19th century saw an enormous shift in the authority structure of […]
Peter Terry has finally made available after many years of toil his translation of Louis Alphonse Daniel Nicolas’ biography in French of the life of the Bab, Seyyed Ali Mohammed dit le Bab (Paris, 1905). Not merely a translation, the book is heavily annotated and footnoted to expand or correct with later research Nicola’s pioneering work.
ALM Nicolas […]
Millennialism and Violence: The Attempted Assassination of Nasir al-Din Shah of Iran by the Babis in 1852. Moojan Momen . The association of millennialist movements with violence has been a subject of much study following recent high-profile events. This article examines a case of millennialism and violence that occurred just over 150 years ago. It […]