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The 29th Hasan M. Balyuzi Memorial Lecture
The Birth of the Human Being: Beyond Religious Traditionalism and Materialist Modernity
Nader Saiedi

Bahá’u'lláh's Seven Valleys and Developmental Psychology: Toward a Conception of Spiritual Development
Andrew Hatala

Identity, Discourse, and Policy: Reconstructing the Public Sphere
Matthew Weinberg

Review of The Bahá’ís of Iran: Socio-Historical Studies  edited by S. Fazel and D.P. Brookshaw
Soli Shahvar 

Cover: New Day
Payam Beint