Reviews
Ageing: Challenges and Opportunities
November 17, 2015by Abdu’l-Missagh Ghadirian. George Ronald, Oxford, 1991, 129 pages. Available for purchase at George Ronald and on Amazon reviewed by Deborah Kestin van den Hoonaard in Journal of Bahá’í Studies…
Abraham: One God Three Wives Five Religions
December 19, 2015by Frances Worthington. Wilmette: Bahá’í Publishing, 2011. xiii + 242 pages, including appendices, footnotes, bibliography, index. Available for purchase at US BDS reviewed by Alex Gottdank in…
A Way Out of No Way
April 13, 2017Transforming Dropouts into Scholars, 1967–1977. Hussein Ahdieh and Hillary Chapman (United States: CreateSpace, 2016), 131 pages. Available at Amazon.com . Reviewed by Donald T. Streets for The…
Awakening—A History of the Bábí and Bahá’í Faiths in Nayriz
February 08, 2016by Hussein Ahdieh and Hillary Chapman, Bahá’í Publishing Trust, Wilmette, IL, 2013, 352 pages. Available through US BPT and the Canadian BDS . reviewed by Anne Pearson in Journal of Bahá’í Studies…
Bahá’í Ethics in Light of Scripture – An Introduction
December 12, 2015by Udo Schaefer Volume I: Doctrinal Fundamentals George Ronald, Oxford, 2007, xvii + 409 pages, including appendices and index and Volume II: Virtues and Divine Commandments Oxford, 2009, xxi…
Bibliography of English-Language Works on the Bábí and Bahá’í Faiths 1844-1985
December 18, 2015by William P. Collins. George Ronald, Oxford, 1990. 521 pages. Available on Amazon reviewed by Roger Dahl in Journal of Bahá’í Studies , vol. 3, no. 3 (1991) A bibliography is a list of writings on…
Champions of Oneness: Louis Gregory and His Shining Circle
December 06, 2016by Janet Ruhe-Schoen. 282 pages, Wilmette, IL: Bahá’í Publishing, 2015. reviewed by Lex Musta for Journal of Bahá’í Studies . Available at US BDS and on Amazon . In Janet Ruhe-Schoen’s important…
Collective Security within Reach
November 18, 2015by Sovaida Ma'ani Ewing. George Ronald, 2007. xii + 260 pp, including index. Available for sale at BDS Canada and US BDS reviewed by Graham Hassall in Journal of Bahá’í Studies, vol 23, no. 1-…
Compassionate Woman: The Life and Legacy of Patricia Locke
December 19, 2015by John Kolstoe. Wilmette, IL: Bahá’í Publishing, 2011. xi + 226 pp including Lakota glossary, notes, index. Available for purchase at US BDS reviewed by Patricia Verge in Journal of Bahá’í Studies…
The Covenant of Bahá’u’lláh, The Ministry of the Custodians
February 01, 2015Adib Taherzadeh, The Covenant of Bahá’u’lláh (Oxford: George Ronald, 1992) 473 pages. Available at US BDS and on Amazon . The Ministry of the Custodians 1957-1963: An Account of the Stewardship…
Crystallizations: 20 Works by Bahá’í Artists
December 23, 2015edited by Ross Woodman. Bahá’í Studies Publications, Ottawa, 1996, 291 + xi pages. Available at ABS reviewed by Shirin Sabri in Journal of Bahá’í Studies , vol. 9, no. 1 (1999) Some time ago, when…
Dear White Christians: For Those Still Longing for Racial Reconciliation
November 15, 2017Jennifer Harvey (Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2014), 262 pages. Reviewed by Dianne Coin for The Journal of Bahá’í Studies. Adherents to the Bahá’í Faith are familiar with this…
Eleven
January 03, 2017by Paul Hanley. 408 pages, Victoria, BC: Friesen Press, 2014. reviewed by Benn McGregor for The Journal of Bahá’í Studies . Available at Amazon and at Friesen Press . Paul Hanley’s book Eleven…
Environnement: Patrimoine de l’humanité
December 22, 2015published and distributed by: Association d’Études Bahá’íes—Europe francophone, Genève, 1993, 59 pages reviewed by Arthur Lyon Dahl in Journal of Bahá’í Studies, Vol. 5, no. 4 (1993) This volume…
Hidden Bounties: Memories of Pioneering on the Magdalene Islands
November 17, 2015by Larry Rowdon. Nine Pines Publishing, Manotick, Ontario, Canada, 141 pages, 20 illustrations, introduction by Roger White, 1994. Available for purchase on Amazon reviewed by Will C. van den…
Hinduism and the Bahá’í Faith
November 17, 2015by Moojan Momen. George Ronald, Oxford, 1990, 84 pages. Available for purchase at George Ronald reviewed by Anne Pearson in Journal of Bahá’í Studies , vol 2, no. 4 (1990) Moojan Momen’s short book…
Legacies of the Heart
January 04, 2016by Larry Rowdon. Borealis Press, Ottawa, 1997, 66 pages. reviewed by Ian Kluge in Journal of Bahá’í Studies , vol. 9, no. 3 (1999) A poem is like a handful of pebbles thrown into a pond: as the…
Life Histories of Bahá’í Women in Canada: Constructing Religious Identity in the Twentieth Century
November 28, 2015by Lynn Echevarria. Peter Lang, 2011. ix + 229 pages, including appendices and index. Available on Amazon reviewed by Deborah van den Hoonaard in Journal of Bahá’í Studies , vol. 24, no. 1-2 (201…
Lighting the Western Sky: The Hearst Pilgrimage and the Establishment of the Bahá’í Faith in the West
November 28, 2014by Kathryn Jewett Hogenson. Oxford: George Ronald, 2010, reprinted 2012. xix + 348 pages including notes, index. Available at George Ronald , BDS Canada , and US BDS reviewed by Janet Ruhe-Schoen…
Materialism: Moral and Social Consequences
January 29, 2019Ghadirian, Abdu’l-Missagh, M.D. Materialism: Moral and Social Consequences 2nd ed. Oxford: George Ronald, 2017. 262 pp. Available from George Ronald , and at the US BDS . Reviewed for The Journal…
Music, Devotions, and Mashriqu'l-Adhkár
November 17, 2015by R. Jackson Armstrong-Ingram. Kalimát Press, 1988. reviewed by Robert H. Stockman in Journal of Bahá’í Studies , vol. 1, no. 2 (1988) This book’s title describes its content well: it is about music…
No Jim Crow Church: The Origins of South Carolina’s Bahá’í Community
August 29, 2016by Louis Venters. xii + 321 pages, Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2015. reviewed by Richard W. Thomas for Journal of Bahá’í Studies . Available at University Press of Florida and on…
One Life, One Memory
November 24, 2016by Rúhá Asdáq. 46 pages, Welwyn, UK: George Ronald Publisher, 1999. reviewed by Paul Mantle for Journal of Bahá’í Studies . Available at George Ronald . Rúhá Asdáq’s One Life, One Memory has…
Peace for Our Planet - A New Approach
October 26, 2018Roya Akhavan, Peace for Our Planet: A New Approach (Minneapolis, MN: Wisdom Editions, 2017), iv + 117 pages. Available on Amazon . Reviewed for The Journal of Baháʼí Studies by Warren Waren This…
Processes of the Lesser Peace
January 05, 2016edited by Babak Bahador and Nazila Ghanea. Oxford: George Ronald, 2002. xii + 276 pages. George Ronald Bahá’í Studies series. Available at George Ronald . reviewed by William P. Collins in Journal…
Review of Two Books on the Life of Tahirih
February 05, 2019Janet Ruhe-Schoen, Rejoice in My Gladness: The Life of Táhirih (Wilmette, IL: Bahá’í Publishing, 2011), 383 pages. Available at US BDS and on Amazon . Hussein Ahdieh and Hillary Chapman, The…
Shoghi Effendi in Oxford and Earlier
January 05, 2016by Riaz Khadem. George Ronald, Oxford, 1999, xviii + 173 pages. Illustrated (32 plates). Available at George Ronald and US BDS . reviewed by Anne Furlong in Journal of Bahá’í Studies , vol. 10, no…
Shoghi Effendi through the Pilgrim’s Eye - Vol. 1
March 01, 2017Building the Administrative Order, 1922–1952 . Earl Redman (Oxford, UK: George Ronald, 2015), 472 pages. Available at George Ronald , US BDS , and Amazon.ca . Reviewed by Catherine Nash for The…
Songs for the Phoenix
December 23, 2015by Michael Fitzgerald. George Ronald, Oxford, England, 1994, 207 pages. Available at George Ronald reviewed by Anne Gordon Perry in Journal of Bahá’í Studies, Vol. 7, no. 3 (1997) Songs for the…
Studying the Writings of Shoghi Effendi
December 21, 2015by Morten Bergsmo. George Ronald, Oxford, 1991, 202 pages. Available at George Ronald . reviewed by Melanie Smith in Journal of Bahá’í Studies , vol. 4 no. 4 (1992) Few would argue with the…
Take My Love to the Friends: The Story of Laura R. Davis
December 12, 2015by Marlene Macke. St. Mary’s, Ont.: Chestnut Park Press, 2009. 287 pp., 37 photographs, index. reviewed by Lynn Echevarria in Journal of Bahá’í Studies , vol. 18, no. 1-4 (2008) Marlene Macke's work…
The Equality of Women and Men: The Experience of the Bahá’í Community of Canada
January 05, 2016by Deborah K. van den Hoonaard and Will C. van den Hoonaard. Douglas, New Brunswick: published by the authors, 2006. Available at US BDS . reviewed by Lynn Echevarria in Journal of Bahá’í Studies…
The Maxwells of Montreal, Vols. I & II
February 19, 2015by Violette Nakhjavani, with the assistance of Bahiyyih Nakhjavani. Vol. I: George Ronald, Oxford, 2011, xx + 422 pp. Vol. II: George Ronald, Oxford, 2012, 442 pp. Available at George Ronald and…
The Psychology of Spirituality
November 18, 2015by Hossein B. Danesh. Paradigm Publishing, Victoria, and Nine Pines Publishing, Manotick, ON, 1994, 270 pages. Available for purchase at US BDS reviewed by Rhett Diessner in Journal of Bahá’í…
The Prophecies of Jesus
December 21, 2015by Michael Sours. Oneworld Publications, Oxford, 1991, 223 pages. Available on Amazon Reviewed by Christopher S. Buck in Journal of Bahá’í Studies , vol. 5, no. 2 (1992) Bahá’í literature on…
The Quickening: Unknown Poetry of Tahirih
February 17, 2016by John S. Hatcher and Amrollah Hemmat. 261 pages. Wilmette, IL: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 2011. reviewed by Shahbaz Fatheazam in Journal of Bahá’í Studies , vol. 25, no. 3 (2015). We can never be…
The Spirit of Agriculture
January 05, 2016edited by Paul Hanley. Oxford: George Ronald, 2005. George Ronald Bahá’í Studies Series. 226 pages. Available at George Ronald . reviewed by Arthur Lyon Dahl in Journal of Bahá’í Studies , vol. 1…
The Bahá’í: The Religious Construction of a Global Identity
January 05, 2016by Michael McMullen. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 2000, xvi + 246 pages, including appendices, bibliography, and index. Available on Amazon.ca and Amazon.com reviewed by William P…
The Wellbeing of Nations: A Country-by-Country Index of Quality of Life and the Environment
January 05, 2016by Robert Prescott-Allen. Washington: Island Press/Ottawa: International Development Research Centre, 2001. xiii + 322 pages; tables, appendices, references, index. Available at Amazon.ca and…
The Story of David and Esther Tanyi
April 30, 2018- Adam and Eve of the Bahá’í Faith in Cameroon Enoch Tanyi Nyenti (Oxford, UK: George Ronald, 2016), xiv + 242 pages. Available at George Ronald and at Amazon.ca (Kindle edition). Reviewed by…
Three Books on Self-Help and Healing
January 26, 2017Phyllis K. Peterson, Healing the Wounded Soul (Wilmette, IL: Bahá’í Publishing, 2005), ix + 195 pages, including index and appendix. Available at US BDS and Amazon . Kim Douglas, High Desert: A…
The Woman Who Read Too Much: A Novel
January 19, 2018Bahíyyih Nakhjavani (Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 2015), 336 pages. Available at Stanford University Press and on Amazon . Reviewed by Mary Sobhani for The Journal of Bahá’í Studies. Bahíyyih…
Two Books on 'Abdu’l-Bahá's Travels
December 19, 2015‘Abdu’l-Bahá in America _ . By Robert H. Stockman. Bahá’í Publishing Trust, Wilmette, 2012; 413 pp. Available at US BDS ‘Abdu’l-Bahá Journey West: The Course of Human Solidarity _ . Edited by Negar…
Toward a Socially Responsible Psychology for a Global Era
March 10, 2016edited by Elena Mustakova-Possardt, Mikhail Lyubansky, Michael Basseches, and Julie Oxenberg, New York: Springer, 2014, xxi + 289 pages, including references and index. Available through Springer…
‘Abdu’l-Bahá in the West: A Biographical Guide of the People Associated with His Travels
February 17, 2016by Jan Teofil Jasion. 499 pages; Paris, Librairie Bahá’íe, 2012. reviewed by Anne Gordon Perry in Journal of Bahá’í Studies , vol. 25, no. 3 (2015). This important new reference work serves as an…
Alzheimer’s Disease: An Eclipse Before Sunset
June 05, 2017Abdu’l-Missagh Ghadirian (CreateSpace, 2016), 122 pages. Available at US BPT and at Amazon.ca Reviewed by Brian Kirsh for The Journal of Bahá’í Studies. For many years, I have been inspired by the…