Some documents related to the chronicles
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Issues related to the dialogue/Talisman movement in general
From the House of Justice:Issues Related to the Study of the Baha'i Faith
From the International Teaching Centre:
Baha'i Scholarship: importance, nature and promotion of
Paper by Ian Semple:
Knowledge and the Covenant of Baha'u'llah
Article by Peter Khan:
Some Aspects of Baha'i Scholarship
Documents related to events in the chronicles
1976 to 1983: The LA study class newsletter
Baquia's transcription of the newsletter
1986 to 1988: dialogue Magazine
1988: A Modest Proposal
dialogue Magazine discontinued
21 June 1989 letter to Steve Scholl from the House of Justice, explaining its concerns (contained in the Ocean Software Library)
House of Justice message to the Baha'is of the United States:
Individual Rights and Freedoms
1988: The Service of Women on the Institutions of the Baha'i Faith
Response of the House of Justice
1996 article by Juan Cole:
Women's Service on the Universal House of Justice
Allegations that the paper was suppressed:
Discussion on trb
Discussion in the forum of the Baha'i Academics Resource Library
????: Creation of the Majnun list
1994: May 19 letter from the House of Justice to the United States National Spiritual Assembly, about issues related to administration
Creation of the first Talisman list
1995: The David Langness incident
Eric Pierce's compilation on the David Langness incident
Stephen Birkland's post on the David Langness incident
Steve Scholl's letter to the House of Justice
1996: The Majnun post
1997: Michael McKenny removed from the membership
Related documents on Juan Cole's site
Susan Maneck's correspondence with the House of Justice
1998: Juan Cole's Modernity and the Millennium
1999: House of Justice message about internal opposition
Terry Culhane's open letter to his friends
First Talisman list closed
Creation of Talisman9
Creation of the talk.religion.bahai newsgroup
2000: Alison Marshall removed from the membership
Related documents on Alison's site
2005: Sen McGlinn's Church and State: A Postmodern Political Theology
Sen McGlinn removed from the membership
House of Justice message to all National Spiritual Assemblies
Comment on Issues Related to the Study of the Baha'i Faith
Decision of the United States National Spiritual Assembly about Kalimat Press
2007: Moojan Momen's Marginality and Apostasy in the Baha'i Community
Other lists
The following pages contain links to some other related documents:
Karen Bacquet's The Talisman Crackdown
Karen Bacquet's When Principle and Authority Collide, Endnote 27
Juan Cole's Documents on Baha'i History and Thought
Fred Glaysher's Assorted Controversial Documents & Issues (scroll down)
My links to Some Documents Related to Baha'i Social Issues