Aflame with Devotion

Aflame with Devotion  (2019) by Judy Hannen Moe The Hannen and Knobloch Families and the Early Days of the Bahá’í Faith in America

Contents

Note to the Reader
Foreword and Acknowledgments

1. Setting the Stages
2. A Family Awakens
3. Joseph’s Early Story
4. Guidance Pours Forth
5. The Real Work Begins
6. Accepting the “Most Challenging Issue”
7. A Radiant Pupil (Louis Gregory)
8. Alma Knobloch Answers the Call
9. Loss of a Matriarch
10. Fanny and Alma Meet the Master—Pilgrimage Accounts
11. Pauline and Joseph Meet ‘Abdu’l-Bahá—Pilgrimage Accounts
12. The Persian-American Connection
13. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá Comes to America
14. Chicago and the Temple
15. Pittsburgh and Philadelphia
16. Special Visit in Dublin, New Hampshire
17. Final Washington D.C. Visit
18. Alma and Fanny visit ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Paris
19. Mother of Bahá’í Children’s Classes
20. Disunity Issues
21. The Perils and Projects of Pauline
22. A Dark and Perilous Time
23. The Divine Plan Revealed
24. A Teaching Family
25. Joseph the “Correspondent?”
26. Combining Forces—Carl Anthony “Nategh” Hannen and Mineola Barnitz
27. Joseph Hannen’s Tragic Death
28. South Africa Bound—Fanny Pioneers
29. The Sisters Teach to the End
30. The Final Goodbyes

Epilogue
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index