Baháʼí Faith can no longer be protected by obscurity, it becomes more important to present a correct view early on. A guideline for Local Spiritual Assemblies produced by an office of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baháʼís of the United States wrote in 1998, Criticism and commentary Juan Cole Former Baháʼí historian Juan Cole wrote in 1998: Denis MacEoin Denis MacEoin was a Baháʼí for 15 years, from 1965 to 1980. He did his doctoral dissertation on the Babi movement at Cambridge in 1979. In the late 1970s, he submitted material for a Baháʼí review process, and his manuscript was rejected. He resigned from the Bahá'í faith and later published the material with E.J. Brill as The Sources for Early Bābī Doctrine and History. He went on to write very critically of the review process. In response to accusations by Denis MacEoin of censorship, Baháʼí author Moojan Momen wrote: Others Barney Leith wrote in 1995: "I submit that it is no longer possible or right for National Assemblies to try to control the kinds of things Bahá'ís publish about their Faith." Former Baháʼí, William Garlington, wrote in 2005: Margit Warburg, a sociologist who published a detailed study of the religion in 2006, wrote: Mikhail Sergeev, in his book, Theory of Religious Cycles: Tradition, Modernity, and the Bahá'í Faith (2015) wrote: Notes References External links Writers and Writing - Compilation of Baháʼí writings on Baháʼí authorship (July 1980) The crisis in Babi and Baha'i studies: part of a wider crisis in academic freedom? - by Denis MacEoin (1990) Review