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Introductory Materials

This directory is a small sampling of introductory materials on the Baha'i Faith. For official websites, see www.bahai.org or us.bahai.org.
1. BBC Religion and Ethics special: Bahá'í (offsite)
2. The Bahá'ís magazine, perhaps the best succinct overview of Bahá'í history, teachings, and community (offsite)
3. A Short Introduction to the Bahá'í Faith, by Moojan Momen (Oxford: Oneworld, 1997)
4. The Bahá'í Faith 1957-1988: A Survey of Contemporary Developments (Religion 19, 1989), by Peter Smith and Moojan Momen
5. Bahá'í Faith: Sect or Religion (Bahá'í Studies 16, 1988), by Udo Schaefer
6. Is the Bahá'í Faith a World Religion? (Journal of Bahá'í Studies 6:1, 1994), by Seena Fazel
7. Suicide and the Bahá'í Faith
8. The Bahá'í Faith, from the Bahá'í International Community's Office of Public Information (offsite)
9.

The Bahá'í Studies Primer, a selection of leading papers and useful links relevant to contemporary Bahá'í studies (offsite)

10. The "Warwick Leaflets": 41 pamphlets on many Bahá'í subjects, published by the Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Warwick, England
11.
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