The `Irfan Colloquia

and the

Religious Studies Special Interest Group of the

Association for Baha'i Studies for English-Speaking Europe

"The World Religions and the Bahá'í Faith."

Friday, July 4, at 7 p.m. to Sunday, July 6 at 1 p.m.

Manchester Bahá'í Centre,

360 Wilmslow Rd., Manchester

Friday Night

7.30: Introduction to the Conference: Moojan Momen, Robert Stockman

8.00: Iraj Ayman, Sectarianism And The Baha'i Faith

9.00: Robert Stockman, Scripture in the Perspective of Comparative Religion and the Baha'i

Faith

Saturday Morning

9.00: Moojan Momen, The Baha'i Approach to Other Religions: The Example of Buddhism

10.00: Kamran Ekbal, The Taiping and other Chinese Messianic Movements in the Nineteenth

Century

11-11.30: Break

11.30: Per Akerdahl, The Baha'i World Centre, seen from the perspective of the history of the

religions

Lunch: 12.30 - 2.30

Saturday Afternoon

2.30: Akwasi Osei, The African Traditional Religion - A Baha'i View

3.30: Enoch Tanyi, African Religion and the Baha'i Faith

3.30-4.00 Break

4.00: Crispin Pemberton-Piggott, Monotheistic Religion in Africa: The Example of the Swazi

People

Saturday Evening: 7.30: Panel Discussion on the day's presentations and Baha'i scholarship in

general

Sunday Morning

9.00: Stephen Lambden, Qa'im (Ariser) and Qayyum (Deity Self-Subsistent) : The background

and significance of twin messianic advents in Babi-Baha'i scripture.

10.00: Julio Savi, The Sufi stages of the soul in The Seven Valleys and The Four Valleys of

Baha'u'llah

11.00-11.30: Break

11.30: Zaid Lundberg, The New Age Movement and the Baha'i Faith

12.30-3.00: Closing Session including a discussion about the contents of a book on the World Religions and the Bahá'í Faith

Closing Remarks: Iraj Ayman