The Bahá'í Faith: A Short Introduction

1. Video A 2 minutes introduction to the Bahá'í Faith from the "Baha'i Blog": goo.gl/Tzzpd9

2. Video "What is the Bahá'í Faith?," in the words of believers gathered at the New York Bahá'í World Congress in 1991 (9:55 mins): goo.gl/xktYJH

3. Video The Bahá'í World View," by the Bahá'í National Center in the US (10:40 mins): goo.gl/6pwNVt

4. Video "Bahá'u'lláh - the Secret of our Century" with a script by Bahiyyih Nakhjavani (38:23 mins): goo.gl/qRICZ3

5. "The Bahá'í Faith: A Short Introduction," from the Resource Guide for the Scholarly Study of the Bahá'í Faith, by Robert Stockman and Jonah Winters, Wilmette, IL: Research Office of the Bahá'í National Center, 1997: goo.gl/s1RHBM

- short and basic but well-balanced.

4. "Bahá'í Faith," from the New World Encyclopedia, December 8, 2016: goo.gl/S7xlC3
- great, up-to-date and accessible summary from a Bahá'í perspective.

5. "Bahaism, The Faith", from Encyclopaedia Iranica (J. Cole), December 15, 1988: goo.gl/5Xl3uv
- a more scholarly and neutral-like approach which has the benefit of placing things at all times in a historical perspective - and which includes greater detail and theoretical depth but which does not cover as much in spread as the article just above.

 6. Bahá’i - a way of life for millions," Ebony magazine, April 1965, p.48: https://goo.gl/ysED7H (please scroll down to page 48).

- this, in a way, is a historical document but also a good introduction to the Bahá’i Faith from the perspective of the oneness of humankind and of the need to adopt "freedom from racial prejudice" as "the watchword of the entire body of American believers, in whatever state they reside" and in every aspect of their life (private or public): "in their homes, their business offices, their schools and colleges, their social parties and recreation grounds."