Just so you know: Denis MacEoin, in later years, described this article as being “very weak”, while more conservative Baha’is praised it, and disparaged his later, more academically sound work.

As I understand it, Denis’ story of being intimidated by Baha’i authorities over his academic work never came out until the Internet came along — and he still has said relatively about it, except he described his experience of having two UHJ members play “good cop/bad cop” with him “one of the most unpleasant encounters” of his life. At the time, he was painted as being just suddenly and inexplicably “disaffected”. I’ve heard that the LA group both admired him as a groundbreaking scholar, but deplored his rather pointed criticisms of the Faith. The article discussed here was written when he was still a Baha’i.

Love, Karen