Baha'i Faith in Africa

Anthony A Lee, Ph.D. (2007), Lecturer at the History Department at UCLA, is General Editor of the academic series Studies in the Babi and Baha'i Religions (Kalimat Press) and has published in African history and African American history.

"It is rather an exciting, well-written and thoroughly researched study that discusses and provides an intriguing insight into the establishment of a new religion in Africa. Lee’s book could easily be read as a study that belongs to the field of the history of religions, but it is also a research project that includes research traditions and methods found within the fields of missionary studies, colonial studies and more broadly African studies." - Göran Larsson, University of Gothenburg, in: Alternative Spirituality and Religion Review 3.1"One of the interesting aspects of the Baha’i Faith is the manner in which it has spread to all parts of the world and gained adherents among a wide variety of cultures, and yet this aspect of the religion has not been studied much. This is the first academic book to examine the spread of the Baha’i Faith to Africa." - Moojan Momen, United Kingdom, in: Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent Religions 17.2"This monograph is the first book-length study of the Baha’i faith in Africa. As such, it is an important achievement and will hopefully engender further indepth research." - Thomas G. Kirsch, University of Konstanz, Germany, in: Journal of Religion in Africa 46