The Bahā’ī Faith: Doctrinal and Historical Explorations—Volume II
A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444).
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Special Issue Editors
Interests: Baha’i history; American Baha’i history; Baha’i theology; history of religion in the United States; Islamic studies; early Christianity
Interests: Baha'i history; Shi`i Islam; Qajar Iran; study of religion
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Dear Colleagues,
The Bahā’ī faith has been in existence for over 160 years and in that time has spread around the world such that there are now organized Bahā’ī communities in almost every country of the world and, according to the statistics compiled by the Association of Religion Data Archives, over 7 million Bahā’īs.(1) All such statistics can be problematized but what is beyond doubt is that the Bahā’ī Faith has not received from the academic community the level of attention and research that its size and rapid growth warrant. Until recently, there have been only a handful of scholars in North America and Europe, and almost none in the rest of the world, who have had this religion as the main focus of their research and very few papers and monographs have been published over the past one hundred years or so. This situation is improving, but only gradually.
The collection of papers in this Special Issue is a small effort towards correcting this deficit in the publications available to the academic world. The theme has been made deliberately broad so that the scholars who contribute can present the research they are currently engaged in.
(1) https://www.thearda.com/QL2010/QuickList_125.asp (accessed 26 May 2022) ©2001 World Christian Trends, William Carey Library, David Barrett & Todd Johnson.
Dr. Robert H. Stockman
Dr. Moojan Momen
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Baha’i
- Baha’i history
- Baha’i textual studies
- Baha'i doctrinal studies
- Babi movement
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