{"title":"Swimmer","authors":"J. Perkins","doi":"10.1001/jama.292.13.1529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.292.13.1529","url":null,"abstract":"Gordon Pugh gets ready for a swim, he dons his swimsuit, goggles and cap, just as any other open water swimming enthusiast might do. After that, however, the similarities end. If Pugh’s swim will be in extremely cold water—which has occurred on more than one occasion—then his next step before plunging into the icy brine is to raise his core body temperature by 2.5°F— up to more than 101°F. Tim Noakes, a University of Cape Town, South Africa, physiologist who monitors Pugh’s coldwater excursions, calls the process “anticipatory thermogenesis.” This is the swimmer’s ability to generate body heat simply by mentally preparing for his grueling freestyle swim. “As soon as I see the water, my temperature goes up,” says Pugh, a 37-year-old British lawyer who grew up in South Africa. “Before a swim, my body is like a furnace. It realizes I am cold and so turns on the burners.” Noakes describes anticipatory thermogenesis as a conditioned response Pugh has developed through a rigorous training program involving repeated exposures to water ranging from freezing to around 40°F. Although scientists are beginning Bill Edwards is managing editor of SWIMMER. W WITH POLAR BEARS SWIMMING","PeriodicalId":393019,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Bahá’í Studies","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125067871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of The World of the Bahá’í Faith","authors":"M. Sabet","doi":"10.31581/jbs-32.3-4.515(2022)","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31581/jbs-32.3-4.515(2022)","url":null,"abstract":"Edited by Robert H. Stockman. Routledge, 2021, 666 pages.","PeriodicalId":393019,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Bahá’í Studies","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127073675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of The Life of Laura Barney","authors":"J. McLean","doi":"10.31581/jbs-32.3-4.514(2022)","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31581/jbs-32.3-4.514(2022)","url":null,"abstract":"by Mona Khademi \u0000George Ronald Publisher, 2022, xxii + 399 pages, including epilogue, index, appendixes and abbreviations.","PeriodicalId":393019,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Bahá’í Studies","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127092213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Power of the Human Spirit","authors":"M. Sabet","doi":"10.31581/jbs-32.3-4.511(2022)","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31581/jbs-32.3-4.511(2022)","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":393019,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Bahá’í Studies","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124221779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discerning a Framework for the Treatment of Animals in the Bahá’í Writings","authors":"M. Sabet","doi":"10.31581/jbs-32.1-2.338(2022)","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31581/jbs-32.1-2.338(2022)","url":null,"abstract":"Discussions about the proper relationship between humans and animals can easily degenerate into what the Universal House of Justice calls “the all too common tendencies . . . to delineate sharp dichotomies . . . and engage in intractable debate that obstructs the search for viable solutions” (29 November 2017). This paper first uses an exegetical approach to discern a Bahá’í framework governing the treatment of animals, and our relationship to the natural world more broadly. Next, a self-reflexive examination of the author’s own relationship with animals is used to demonstrate how such a framework can directly inform the individual’s way of being in the world, in a manner that is both faithful to the Bahá’í teachings on the subject, and responsive to differences in individuals’ circumstances. Finally, it suggests that by presenting an internally coherent position in which an ethics of kindness and justice flows from underlying ontological principles, this framework hold promise for transcending the dichotomy between domination-themed narratives that assign purely instrumental value to the natural world, and materialistic narratives that deny any unique status to the human being. \u0000This paper had its origins in a presentation offered at the 2020 Annual Conference of the Association for Bahá’í Studies, but expands considerably on the arguments in that talk, both in terms of breadth and depth. My thanks to Roshan Danesh, Nilufar Gordon, Mahtab Sabet, and two anonymous reviewers, for their generous feedback and encouragement.\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":393019,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Bahá’í Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125901699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Grammar Lesson","authors":"Joel Dias-Porter","doi":"10.31581/jbs-32.1-2.503(2022)","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31581/jbs-32.1-2.503(2022)","url":null,"abstract":"From the large number of linguistic and grammatical texts that fell into my hands, I realized by examining the existence of the description method, and I resolved to try to deal with it, according to what the scientific research wants, and if the research really goes back to Arabic than urging the attribution of this method to the Arabs, not to the Europeans, With evidence and arguments, this does not overshadow the efforts of Westerners in this field ددعلا and they have their clear touches - but the problem of the term remained a deep gap in the Arab study, and if the term was available, it would not leave dust on the issue. Undoubtedly, we find what the modern descriptive approach stipulates, of the necessity of comprehensive induction of the language, listening, and taking the language from the mouths of its direct speakers, and then establishing the rules, rooting the assets, and enacting the laws of language and grammar .","PeriodicalId":393019,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Bahá’í Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128854258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning from ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in a Society Characterized by Ageism","authors":"Deborah K. van den Hoonaard","doi":"10.31581/jbs-32.1-2.472(2022)","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31581/jbs-32.1-2.472(2022)","url":null,"abstract":"Bahá’ís the world over view ‘Abdu’l-Bahá not only as the Centre of Bahá’u’lláh’s Covenant but as the Exemplar of how we should live. However, although the images and stories of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá that come to mind for many of us are from the period of His life after His release from prison at the age of sixty-five, we don’t often think about Him as an old man. This article summarizes the nature and impact of ageism and how we learn to be old by the way people treat us. It explores how ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s example informs our own lives given the prevalence of ageism in Western society.\u0000This paper is a slightly edited version of a presentation offered at the 2021 Annual Conference of the Association for Bahá’í Studies.","PeriodicalId":393019,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Bahá’í Studies","volume":"40 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120855590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quantum State Function, Platonic Forms, and the Ethereal Substance","authors":"V. Ranjbar","doi":"10.31581/jbs-32.1-2.289(2022)","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31581/jbs-32.1-2.289(2022)","url":null,"abstract":"Werner Heisenberg, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, argued that the quantum state function for elementary particles should be understood as belonging to the realm of Plato’s idealized Forms. In this paper, I suggest that this connection between two concepts of fundamental importance in our understanding of reality, from science and philosophy respectively, can be plausibly further correlated to concepts from the knowledge system of religion, as described in the Bahá’í Writings. I argue here that ethereal substance (maddiy-i-athiriyyih) as described by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá and alluded to by Bahá’u’lláh also belongs to Plato’s idealized realm. Further, the description of ethereal substance in the Bahá’í Writings resonates with the modern understanding of a quantum field, which itself is derived from the concept of a quantum state function. The paper also considers the implications of apparent parallels drawn in the Bahá’í Writings between the ethereal substance and the human spirit, and concludes with reflections on the possible relationship between consciousness and quantum mechanics.","PeriodicalId":393019,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Bahá’í Studies","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133542437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}