User:Sen RM McGlinn
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Born 1956, lives in the Netherlands, married with children.
BA Hons in English literature, doctorandus in Islamic Studies, with minors in Christian theology and Persian respectively. Working as an academic editor and translator. Editor of The Leiden List of Bahá'u'lláh's Tablets', member of the Board of the Iranian Studies Series (Rozenburg/Purdue).
Publications include:
Toward the Enlightened Society, in Bahai Studies Review, vol. 4 no. 1, 1994
'A theology of the state from the Bahá'í writings', Journal of Church and State, Vol. 41, Autumn 1999. Online at http://bahai-library.org/articles/theology.state.html
‘Theocratic assumptions in Baha’i literature’ in S. Fazel and J. Danesh (eds) Reason and Revelation, Studies in Babi and Baha’i Religions vol. 13, Los Angeles, Kalimat Press, 2002
‘A difficult case: Beyer’s categories and the Bahá’í Faith’ in Social Compass 50(2), 2003, 247-255
‘Bahai meets Globalisation’ in Margit Warburg, Annika Hvithamar and Morten Warmind (eds), Baha’i and Globalisation, Aarhus University Press, 2005 ISBN 87 7934 109 8
Church and State: a postmodern political theology (book 1), dissertation, University of Leiden, the Netherlands, distributed as volume 19 of ‘Studies in the Babi and Bahai Religions’ (Kalimat Press, Los Angeles), 2005
A.A. Seyed-Gohrab & S. McGlinn (eds), The Treasury of Tabriz: The Great Il-Khanid Compendium, Rozenburg Publishers Amsterdam and Purdue University Press, West Lafayette, 2007
A.A. Seyed-Gohrab, S. McGlinn & F. Doufikar-Aerts (eds), Gog and Magog: The Clans of Chaos in World Literature, Rozenburg Publishers Amsterdam and Purdue University Press, West Lafayette, 2007
Translations:
"A Sermon on the Art of Governance (Resale-ye Siyasiyyah) by `Abdu'l-Baha," Translations of Shaykhi, Babi and Baha'i Texts, vol. 7, no. 1 (March, 2003).
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~bahai/trans/vol7/govern.htm
A.A. Seyed-Gohrab & S. McGlinn, The Essence of Modernity: Mirza Yusof Khan Musthashar ad-Dowla Tabrizi's Treatise on Codified Law (Yak Kaleme) (edition, translation and introduction), Amsterdam, Rozenburg Publ. 2007 (second revised edition 2008)
Confusion of Confusions: an adaption of the classic masterpiece by Josseph de la Vega on the 17th Century Amsterdam Stock Exchange, Sonsbeek Publishers, 2006
J Christiaan Boudri, What was Mechanical about Mechanics: The concept of force between metaphysics and mechanics from Newton to Legrange, Kluwer Academic Publishers
Mr. McGlinn is specialty editor for Baha'i topics. --Larry Sanger 09:19, 3 September 2008 (CDT)