- Moojan Momen. Apocalyptic Thinking and Process Thinking: A Bahá'í Contribution to Religious Thought (2012). The process of change in religious thinking and how it manifests in expectations about the Lesser Peace, both from Bahá'í texts and within the community. Includes discussions of "the calamity," and of non-Bahá'í political evolution in the 20th century.
- Universal House of Justice. Attainment of the Unity of Nations and the Lesser Peace (2001-04-19). Letter sent to all NSAs and later broadcast to the Bahá'í world to explain the process through which the Lesser Peace will be created and its relation to the Most Great Peace.
- Chris Manvell, Carolyn Sparey-Gillies. Brief Introduction to Millennial Zeal in the Nineteenth Century, A (1997). Joseph Wolff, William Miller, and millennial zeal in early 19th-century America; biblical proofs of the return of Christ; the appearance of the Báb in Iran.
- Universal House of Justice. Enrollments and limited growth of the Bahá'í community (2002-08-22). The lack of significant numerical growth in certain Western Bahá'í communities is related to the preceding decades of struggle, achievement and disappointment.
- Naghme Naseri Morlock. From Outsider to Outsider: A Study of Iranian Bahá'ís' Identity in Iran and the United States (2023). The denial of a national identity of Bahá'ís in Iran; their experiences in the U.S.; cultural differences between immigrant and American Bahá'ís; the importance of religious identity; how religious, national, and cultural identities are negotiated.
- Ahang Rabbani. Messianic Expectations in Nineteenth Century Christian and Islamic Communities (2006-02). The phenomenon of messianism and its manifestations in early-modern American Christianity and in Iranian Islam.
- International Teaching Centre. Pilgrims Notes and the "Calamity" (1984-07-01). Status of Pilgrims' Notes and their discussion of the catastrophic events some Bahá'ís believe might occur around the turn of the millennium.
- Shoghi Effendi, Universal House of Justice. Potential Calamities and Ensuring Sustainability of Communities (2020). Guidance on calamitous events and our response to them.
- William Sears. Thief in the Night: The Case of the Missing Millennium (1961). In the early 19th-century there was world-wide and fervent expectation that during the 1840s the return of Christ would take place. Did this happen, or was it all a dream?
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